Quotes About Transformation

the swallows, fleeing before the hoopoes, shall have all flocked together in one place, and shall refrain them from all amorous commerce, then will be the end of all the ills of life; yea, and Zeus, which doth thunder in the skies, shall set above what was erst below....

Anger Is A Gift

No es posible o no es fácil remover por medio de la razón lo que está profundamente arraigado en el carácter

Things speed up as you circle the drain. Armistead Maupin on ageing

He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

God soon showed me, for in reading a few lines further, that 'true Christianity is a union of the soul with God, and Christ formed within us,' a ray of divine light was instantaneously darted into my soul, and from that moment, and not till then, did I know I must become a new creature.

The entire landscape was illuminated and transformed by these unique pyrotechnics of labour atoning for its grime, and dull, weird sounds, as of the breathings and sighings of gigantic nocturnal creatures, filled the enchanted air.

You are born in a human form, and you find joy in it. Yet there are ten thousand other forms endlessly transforming that are equally good, and the joy in these is untold. The sage dwells among those things, which can never be lost, and so he lives forever. He willingly accepts early death, old age, the beginning and the end, and serves as an example for everyone.63

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.

all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal.

For the last time, David Bowman slept.

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy.

The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools.

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The

Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal- and power.

Ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear had virtually ceased to exist.

Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

seem quaint and archaic.

Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.