Quotes about Metamorphosis
Anthony moved about, magician-like, turning the mushroom lamp into an orange glory
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The
— Soren Kierkegaard
One word is spoken aloud and the world changes.
— Alice Hoffman
When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.
— Alice Walker
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
— Frank Herbert
If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. ~
— Scott Hahn
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
— John Ortberg
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
— Samuel Beckett
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
— Frederick Buechner
Change begets change.
— Charles Dickens
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
— Vance Havner