Quotes About Transformation

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

It made sense: we were Others now.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this chiliastic tommyrot before, from a variety of faith-based ethnic cleansers forever seeking to transmute the rest of us to death.

Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.

Our only security is our ability to change.

Burton began that evening gracious, charming, and sober. Liv and I watched in fascination and horror, exchanging eye-rolling glances, as too much drink gradually turned that splendid man into a boorish, self-loathing sot.

Dumpty the Bigot.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

A rose is sweeter in the bud than full-blown.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Faith is a creative act. It is through faith that we transform the accidental events of our lives into the signs of our destiny. Happiness is fortuitous but meaning is conferred when chance is transfigured through a rebirth of images.

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That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever. Yep, just like people.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

Shamanic abilities are generally brought on by a personal crisis

We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

It is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of transition