Quotes About Transformation

beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...

You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...

Life is tough, but I'm tougher. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.

If you had asked me the day before whether high school could get any worse, I would have bet you everything I had that I had sunk to the lowest I could get. Yet here I was, at a whole new sub-level I had never imagined.

This pain It is a glacier moving through you And carving out deep valleys And creating spectacular landscapes

Sunshine and warm water seem to me to have full meaning only when they come after winter's bite; green is not so green if it doesn't follow the months of brown and gray. And the scheduled inevitable death of green carries its own exhilaration; in that change is the promise of all the rebirths to come, and the deaths, too. ... Without the year's changes, for me, there is little morality.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." —Augustine

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, at rest.

And what's a buterfly? At best, He's but a ceterpillar, drest.

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

FOR MARY, the weeks and months after the explosion were the most critical of her life.

The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded." The

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let's take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

who went on to write one of Louis XVI and a good synography of Robespierre. They

The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.…