Quotes about Transformation

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

The surest poison is time.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.