Quotes About Transformation

Lo que era no es lo que soy, -se dijo, Y lo que soy no es aun lo que puedo ser

Sabes lo que experimenté después? Un miedo de lo más seductor. Esa sensación que le viene a uno cuando se da cuenta de que ha corrido un gran peligro. Esa clase de miedo que adquiere forma y se transfigura en las pesadillas.

Un hombre sin pasado puede forjar cualquier futuro»

What I was, isn´t what I am. And what I am, isn´t yet what I can be.

Zimmerman había sido un hombre que se deleitaba con lo espantosa que era su vida, y prefería quejarse a cambiarla.

In a way, he'd been triangulated, in much the same way one finds his location when lost in the woods. Three pillars: who he was, who he'd become, who he needed to be.

Quiero seguir siendo como soy, no como era».

The woman in front of him seemed like the work of an artist who had taken the few lines that sketched out a teenager and added color and shape to create a full portrait.

Una cosa es enfrentarse con el pasado de uno mismo. Pero otra totalmente distinta es ver lo que ha sido, y lo que significa, y utilizarlo después para construir un futuro mejor.

Lo que era no es lo que soy —se dijo—. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.»

Lo que era no es lo que soy. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.

What I was, isn't what I am. And what I am, isn't yet what I can be.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Histories themselves become history before they reach the shelves.

It is ironic that the moment you can accept yourself as you are, you can easily change yourself and become different. So long as you dislike yourself it is difficult to change, for it is self-acceptance at the deepest level which frees us to move on

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

all great achievements carry the seeds of their ossification.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all—plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

One day you'll remember this moment, and it'll mean something very different. Maybe you'll cringe and laugh, or brim with pride, aching to return. Or notice some detail hidden in the scene, a future landmark making its first appearance or discreetly taking its final bow.

spinning playback head n. the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you've become different people on divergent paths-that even though they're standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn't really there anymore.