Quotes About Transformation

comprende?... Se va transformando, muere y vive mientras nace, hasta que el artista dice basta. Sólo entonces termina. Y muere de verdad.

Nadie es el mismo al empezar un libro que al terminarlo, sea como lector o como escritor.

Un cuadro es la suma de sus destrucciones. Es algo vivo, ¿comprende?... Se va transformando, muere y vive mientras nace, hasta que el artista dice basta. Sólo entonces termina. Y muere de verdad.

Allí jamás será aquí

Hará falta más que unos libros para despertar a nuestra infeliz patria, señores míos. Alguna sacudida mayor que despierte de su letargo a ese pueblo miserable y digno de lástima, al

En 1986 entrábamos en la Comunidad Económica Europea, y el progreso y la modernidad llegaron para quedarse. Alfonso Guerra lo había clavado: A España no la va a reconocer ni la madre que la parió. … Y así fue, y así es todavía.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Things can change in a day.

That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.

El dolor tiene otra virtud y es que al desasosiego que lo acompaña le siguen la caída de la soberbia, la compasión hacia aquellos que vagan arrastrados por la vorágine del renacer.

Por lo tanto, un enemigo es tan deseable como un tesoro que, sin ningún esfuerzo de mi parte apareciera en mi propia casa, porque un enemigo es mi ayudante en el camino que conduce al despertar.

A flower gives joy only for a day. Witnessing it bloom into one is magic.

The past doesn't have to be our future.

But the world turned, and it changed, and eventually all tyrants fell to become dust.

Is that what it feels like, coming here? Like a crazy decision that took you away and made you some lesser version of yourself?

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.

I thought about it all the way home. Of all the things I had wanted to be when i was a little girl, a revolutionary certainly wasn't one of them.

Our desire to be free has got to manifest itself in everything we are and do. We have accepted too much of a negative lifestyle and a negative culture and have to consciously act to rid ourselves of that negative influence.

Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.