Quotes About Transformation

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

Though they had a chance. God forgives them if they would leave the devil and come to Him and go back to the people. They are not guilty of the devil's sins and He has declared them to be free of the devil's sins.

She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

She wanted to unzip her body and step out of it. She wanted to be attached to a machine that would erase her memory, obliterate her guilt, wipe her clean.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Lizbet is so busy that hours and even days go by when she forgets to be on the lookout for Shelly Carpenter.

the summer of 1969, she will think: That was the summer I became real. My own real person.

makes of herself.

She has new hair and new boobs, but her insides are still rotten.

hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation: the poem dies when it has no place to go.

Japan: A stranger hands you a stone and asks you to hold it. Puzzled, you take it. The stone grows. And grows until you are crushed

Young girls would paint themselves like parakeets. Bothersome children are like parakeets. If you dream a parakeet is lying in an oven you may be certain that soon you will die. The shells of hatched parakeets turn into maggots, which turn into lizards, which creep down the throats of sleeping people

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above.

Let even your deficits be your offering.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

All that is good in me I owe to God alone, whose fatherly action is continuous and is so plainly visible in my life that, in spite of great trials and this recent sorrow — the greatest of all — I can still offer Him fervent thanks and must try in future to transform my soul and life to His service.

To think about what is new, we cannot use old concepts— particularly not concepts that have been emptied of their meaning and their usefulness by the very assaults that brought about this break in human history. We cannot use concepts from Before, inherited from a world that exists no longer, to explore the After.

Know what you get when you rearrange the letters in Nate Wetherill? HATE WILL ENTER.

Hands down, this is the best day of my life," Olaf says as he begins to drip into a puddle, "and quite possibly the last.