Quotes About Transformation

There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for a Socrates but found none among his contemporaries. Then he requested the gods to change him into one. But now--he who had been so proud of being an Alcibiades was so humiliated and humbled by the gods' favor that, just when he received what he could be proud of, he felt inferior to all.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

The dawn of beauty always comes after night.

If something is eating at you, you gotta find a way to use it.

Some people never change and they pay a price for it.

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.