#transformation

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#memory #pain #transformation #transformation

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#challenge #chameleon #change #how #i

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#because #better #coming #even #film

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable. ↗

— Joe Viterelli

#exactly #films #funny #looking #opposite

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#effects #global #go #goes #personal

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#affirmative #answer #call #death #eternal

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized