The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
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Alan Cohen
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
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Toni Cade Bambara
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed....
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Donald Miller
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
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Anthony Kiedis
As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.
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Cynthia Bourgeault
More Quotes By Dan Chaon
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.
He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost...
I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never...
I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.
