Quotes about Metamorphosis

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Transformation is natural. None of us look the same as we did when we were babies, and when we are old, we'll look very different than we did when we were middle aged. Things that are healthy and alive change. The converse is also true: things that are dead do not change. A rock does not change because a rock is not alive.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.

No one comes face to face with God and remains unchanged.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

But I was thinking; feeling; living; those two lives that the two halves symbolized with the intensity, the muffled intensity, which a butterfly or moth feels when with its sticky tremulous legs and antennae it pushes out of the chrysalis and emerges and sits quivering beside the broken case for a moment; its wings still creased; its eyes dazzled, incapable of flight.