Quotes About Transformation

Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

CAPÍTULO OCHO

El aire ya no olía a cerrado. El pasado había desaparecido.

Oare viaÈ›a nu era decât o furtun? care È™tergea urmele a ceea ce fusese o clip? mai înainte, l?sând în urm? un pustiu de nerecunoscut?

Todos sabemos que una escena invernal de árboles cubiertos con mantos de nieve sería irreconocible a la primavera siguiente. No me podía imaginar, sin embargo, que algo así podía suceder dentro de nosotros mismos.

Es raro que nazca un cisne de un pájaro común. El cisne que sigue viviendo en el árbol de sus padres acaba muriendo; por eso quienes están dotados de belleza y de talentos llevan la carga de encontrar su propio camino.

the integration of matrices is not a simple operation of adding together. It is a process of mutual interference and cross-fertilization, in the course of which both matrices are transformed in various ways and degrees. Hidden axioms, implied in the old codes, suddenly stand revealed and are subsequently dropped; the rules of the game are revised before they enter as sub-rules into the composite game. When Einstein bisociated energy and matter, both acquired a new look in the process.

The myopic child, who sometimes saw the world doubled or quadrupled, became the founder of modern optics (the word 'dioptries' on the oculist's prescription is derived from the title of one of Kepler's books); the man who could only see clearly at a short distance, invented the modern astronomical telescope. We shall have occassion to watch the working of this magic dynamo, which transforms pain into achievement and curses into blessings.

Good things can be created from bad.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way.

A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an automobile tire.

Awareness is the first step in rewriting old stories.

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

the orange circle faded to a coiled spring of dully glowing grey.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.

The theoretical philosopher transforms life into ideas. The practical philosopher transforms ideas into life; he acts, therefore, in a thoroughly reasonable manner; he is consistent, regular, deliberate; he is never hasty or passionate; he never allows himself to be influenced by the impression of the moment.

Para conducir al hombre a un estado mejor, no bastaría con ponerle en un mundo mejor, sino que seria preciso de toda necesidad transformarle totalmente, hacer de modo que no sea lo que es y que llegara a ser lo que no es.

as experience in fact shows that those purely rational characters commonly called practical philosophers (and rightly so, since real, i.e., theoretical, philosophers translate life into concepts, while they translate concepts into life) are surely the happiest

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.