Quotes About Transformation

In the theatre the playwright is at least the equal partner of the performers, but in film the writer is shouldered aside by director, actor, producer and editor, who together transform the printed word into something far more glamorous and evocative.

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

A small revolution was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Men, born doubtless to be beautiful—for all creatures have a relative beauty—are enrolled from their childhood beneath the yoke of force, beneath the rule of the hammer, the chisel, the loom, and have been promptly vulcanized.

Bama captures a moment that contains a paradox: she seeks an identity, but seeks a change which means an end to that identity.

For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you'll have collected a whole lot of this 'dirt of life' stuff, right, you won't know where it's coming from but it'll pile up, and clothes and pearls won't look as beautiful to you as they do now -- that's for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can't ever settle down in one place, you've got to live like you're always, always staring way off into the distance.

When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. But soon, it becomes a clean stream, whose flows conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha

From the moment we met, I was a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.

The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it's always fresh.

I started out thinking I'd just have to look the part to get by, and before I knew it the poison had seeped in and changed me inside.

When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. "But soon, it becomes a clear stream, whose flow conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.

No huir de la vida cotidiana sino transformar la totalidad de mis vivencias en una energía distinta, convertirlas en una parte de mí.

Nessuno degli amori che avevo avuto fino ad allora aveva mai cancellato in questo modo il paesaggio.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. Nakajima

Banana Yoshimoto

Omologarsi equivale a perdere di vista se stessi.

Strahlt ein Leuchtturm allzu hell, verwirrt er die vorüberfahrenden Schiffe und zieht die wunderlichsten Schicksale an.(...) Ich glaube es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Anziehungskraft, deren Daseinsenergie unermüdlich nach Veränderung verlangt.

Pero si él pudiera acostumbrarse al hecho de que todos los días son una absurda repetición del anterior, a estar siempre con la misma persona, a la idea de que únicamente el vuelo de un pequeño corazón puede colorear el mundo..., si fuera capaz, entonces, quizás, algo podría ir cambiando, poco a poco.

Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquier que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación

Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquiera que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación