Quotes About Transformation

Nothing remains the same. Everything moves on in the end. Even us. Death is nothing more than another change.

I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

Kesepian adalah benang-benang halus ulat sutera yang perlahan-lahan, lembar demi lembar, mengurung orang sehingga ulat yang ada di dalamnya ingin segera melepaskan diri menjadi wujud yang sama sekali berbeda, yang bisa saja tidak diingat lagi asal-usulnya. Hanya ulat busuk yang tidak ingin menjadi kupu-kupu. (81)

The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view; The good man will in time be gorgeous, too.

a system is working when an attempt to transform that system is blocked.

I urge you to imagine the interlaced abundance if, throughout suburbia, every stockade fence, every chain-linked boundary, were to be buried in varied greenery and each of them and every hedge transformed into a hedgerow. I ask you, at least, to open the door to some first guest that your party might begin.

The wound is the place where the light enters. —RUMI (attributed)

The wound is the place where the light enters.

It is the kind of fighting where you go in as pigs and come out sausage,

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our own true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

Interviewer: What does it mean to you to be a Silettian detective? Murray: (Pause.) It means I was blind, and now I can see. Interviewer: And the drinking? Murray: Well. Some people need glasses to see, you know.

The new joy of speed, the urgency of coming night, the hope of reunion with his boy – these things transformed him into something that shot like liquid fire between the trees. Something gravity couldn't touched. Pax could have run forever.

She said it meant that no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

Everything was something else before and will be something else after.

Aria Crosses Over

Before Ali, the girls had felt like pleated, high-waisted mom jeans—awkward and noticeable for all the wrong reasons—but then Ali made them feel like the most perfect-fitting Stella McCartneys that no one could afford.

People didn't like thinking outside the box, apparently. Though to be fair, it was a box that had changed her family's life for the better.

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.

The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That's what seemed real now – the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way.

The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.' 'How?' 'You've come more alive.

One's aesthetic changes once one has a child.