Quotes About Transformation

I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place... until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Then I was a man I only went up the Hill As I had time to kill But kill I did all that was Me and Mine With Me and Mine gone Lost all my will and skill Here I am, an empty vessel Enslaved to the Divine Will and infinite skill

If you resist change, you resist life.

The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.

I'm a new man, Giovanni. If you want to imitate me, you'll have to abandon the mask and get a face like this one." Erik smiled mirthlessly at his young nemesis, his teeth shining madly in the dim light of piazza. "You can't have her! She loves me. The mask won't do. You could never giver what she wants, because she wants me!" Giovanni tried to follow Meg and Roul, but each time he shifted Erik was there.

I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Becoming switched on is about forgetting the "this is how we've always done it" mentality and wiping the slate clean

To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means 'to come together, to become together, to weave together.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branches To point me to blossoms-- Which now are everywhere and I can Go where I've never been before.

Tuskan ahjossa kerran suli sydämeni kova ja hiljainen. Sitä liekit söi, sen puhdisti tuli, ja itse kuolema takoi sen. Niin, elämä: aseellas raskaimmalla lyö, iske! Enää en murtua voi. Minun sydämeni helisee moukarin alla, mitä kipeämmin lyöt, sitä syvemmin se soi.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

I have liberated my soul.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.