Quotes About Transformation

Even now the blind scalpels of evolution took raw material adapted for a vanished world, and cut and shaped it for the conditions of the new.

Sculpting the very earth. That boast stuck in a corner of my mind, though I wasn't sure why, at the time. Perhaps in retrospect what I can only call my revelation was already stirring, like a seed in the watered ground. As I will relate in its place.

Five million years was plenty of time to forget, as you evolved or devolved or whatever the hell.

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

I was looking at this tree but it was a dragon and then a tree

Un abrazo, una sonrisa, una palabra amable: todos tienen un potencial de cambiar una vida por completo

And for the first time, something nice like that made me smile and not cry.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

It is the night sea journey that allows us to free the energy trapped in these cast-off parts—trapped in what Marion would call "the shadow." The goal of this journey is to reunite us with ourselves. Such a homecoming can be surprisingly painful, even brutal. In order to undertake it, we must first agree to exile nothing.

As W. H. Auden noted, "human beings are by nature actors who cannot become something until they have first pretended to be it.

A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes.

I WALKED IN A DESERT. AND I CRIED, 'AH, GOD, TAKE ME FROM THIS PLACE!' A VOICE SAID, 'IT IS NO DESERT.' I CRIED, 'WELL, BUT— THE SAND, THE HEAT, THE VACANT HORIZON.' A VOICE SAID, 'IT IS NO DESERT.

El que puede cambiar sus pensamientos, puede cambiar su destino

In fact, he had become an it, and those of us who knew him noted how poorly itness suited him, his pale demeanor resembling nothing he'd been.

I look for those with hidden wings, and for scars that those who once had wings can't hide.

Birth of a Railroad

It was kind of sad. We got her on the cover, but I could see the change in her beauty. There was an emptiness in her eyes.

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.