“THEY SAY it is the soul that rises, not the body. But the body does rise—”— Jenny George, narrativemagazine.com
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”— Anaïs Nin, en.wikiquote.org
“I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”— Rachel Naomi Remen, amazon.com
“I was twelve. What did I know? How could I have imagined then how alone I would become.”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com
“Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.”— Stanley Kunitz, amazon.com
“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, compos…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com