Quotes About Transformation

He teased things out in me that I didn't know existed: a lightness, a humor, an ease. It was as if he hollowed me out and filled me with feathers.

Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness!

like a moth lost in dawn's light.

A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and back and had become worthy. A man far better than I, for he had located his moral pole star and set his course by it though it had cost his life.

Believing these thoughts causes great suffering in my clients' lives. At those times, I feel like Alice in Wonderland talking to the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass. When Alice tells the queen that she can't believe impossible things, the queen replies, "I daresay you haven't had much practice… Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

La vida es una caca de vaca que hay que convertir en un pastel de manzana.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

The resurrection of Christ marked the beginning of the End, the turning of the ages.

What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else?

It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.

Spider-Man had Peter Parker.

How many people ever get a do-over at life? Falling on my head was the best thing that ever happened to me.

This is an awful thing that's happened to you, but it's also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. Don't

If she hadn't adopted the hippie lifestyle, she would have made a terrific Marine drill sergeant.

Children parented in such a manner never come up against the necessary frustration that accompanies facing the impossible. They are deprived of the experience of transforming frustration into feelings of futility, of letting go and adapting.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

I'm a born-again atheist.