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Quotes About Transformation

The Path Out Of The Valley Appears When You Choose To See Things Differently.
~ Spencer Johnson
They didn't notice they needed to change what had once been working.
~ Spencer Johnson
If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct.
~ Spencer Johnson
the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you. change.
~ Spencer Johnson
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy. Stated another way: Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
~ Spider Robinson
She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.
~ Stacy Schiff
But she didn't know that when she was younger; then, the classroom was just a place that transformed itself based on whatever she was supposed to learn that day, like the Room of Requirement.
~ Stan Lee
Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn the grass to cheese. And yet this lack of cows, however rational it may be, gives one the feeling that the fields and meadows, deprived of their phlegmatic, bemusedly ruminating presence, are pitifully empty.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
He who must be what he is, may curse his fate, but cannot change it; on the other hand, he who can transform himelf has no one in the world but himself to hold responsible for his dissatisfaction.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
And then, with a sound not heard but sensed, a tenuous string snapped within me and I, a she now, felt the rush of gender so violent, that her head spun and I shut my eyes. And as I stood thus, with eyes closed, words came to me from every side, for along with gender she had received language.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Ksi??k? mo?na czytelnikowi g?ow?, owszem przemeblowa? o tyle, o ile jakie? meble ju? w niej przed lektur? sta?y.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
To on (lecz znów nie pamiÄ™tam, który) udowodniÅ' matematycznie mo?liwo?? przeksztaÅ'cania siÄ™ kwarków w akwarki, a tych- w akwaria. W naszym WszechÅ›wiecie nie jest to mo?liwe, ale w innych niechybnie tak, i tym samym teoria ta wykroczyÅ'a poza granice naszego Uniwersum.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Quien crece, nunca sabe de antemano si se adentra en un saco, en un túnel, o si penetra, sin posibilidad de retorno, en una zona de silencio; o si, en cambio, emergerá de ella aún más poderoso.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
~ Stanislav Grof
If the above observations are correct, no external interventions have a chance to create a better world unless they are associated with a profound transformation of human beings.
~ Stanislav Grof
We know, but cannot grasp, that above and below, beyond the limits of perception or imagination, thousands of millions of simultaneous transformations are at work, interlinked like a musical score by mathematical counterpoint...a symphony...but we lack the ears to hear it.
~ Stanislaw Lem
In the broadest sense of the term, Nietzsche is not an ontologist or metaphysician but indeed a political thinker. His most comprehensive intention is to transform the collective circumstances of human existence in order to breed a new race of mankind. It is in this radical and comprehensive sense that Nietzsche is a prophet or lawgiver.
~ Stanley Rosen
I'm learning to master self while rising from the ashes of madness.
~ Stanley Tookie Williams
I used the walker for a while, then graduated to a wooden cane like the ones we used to crack people over the head with. Talk about karma.
~ Stanley Tookie Williams
An initiation is a symbolic death and rebirth, a rite of passage that transforms each person who experiences it.
~ Starhawk
A spell is a symbolic act done in an altered state of consciousness, in order to cause a desired change.
~ Starhawk
This is how it works: Someone has a vision that arises from a fierce and passionate love. To make it real, we must love every moment of what we do. Impermanent spirals embed themselves in asphalt, concrete, dust. Slowly, slowly, they eat into the foundations of the structures of power. Deep transformations take time. Regeneration arises from decay. Si, se puede! It can be done.
~ Starhawk
When we have a change of heart on the inside, it manifests itself on the outside.
~ Stasi Eldredge