Anohni Quotes

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Time brings all things to pass.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

My nature just changes.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.