Quotes About Transformation

Whatever one has rejected is in itself a tangible shaping force.

Essentially, Aquinas argued that all things in life are a combination of actual and potential—that a candle, for example, is a candle right now, and has the potential to become a pool of wax when operated on by fire.

Nothing had changed. Everything had changed

Since Punk, no-one is certain what garbage might not become gold

It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.

I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me. It's boring.

You say you're a different man But you know that's a lie The truth is gonna set you free And so am I

Tengo la esperanza de que algún día me despojaré de este cuerpo como una caparazón inútil, acaso a la espera de una nueva caparazón" Cuentos Completos II

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

Un soplo, un rayo de luz, una sensación bastarían para animar la hermosa piedra, que teniendo ya todas las galas de la forma, carecía tan sólo de la conciencia de su propia belleza, la cual emana de la facultad de conocer la belleza exterior.

La experiencia es una llama que no alumbra sino quemando.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.

Every time Quirke saw Mal nowadays his brother-in-law seemed a little more dry and dusty, as if an essential fluid was leaking out of him, steadily, invisibly. He leaned

Within the fall, we find the ascent. —KABBALISTIC PROVERB

Es un gran paso, un paso irreparable, cuando desvelamos de golpe ante un tercero los repliegues ocultos de una relación íntima; la luz que penetra en el santuario constata y culmina las destrucciones que la oscuridad escondía entre sus sombras: del mismo modo que los cuerpos encerrados en sus tumbas conservan a menudo su forma original hasta que el aire exterior los golpea y los reduce a polvo.

Thus it is that bodies shut in tombs often preserve their original shape until the outside air reaches them and reduces them to dust.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.