Mutual Transformation Quotes

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?

We do not love each other without changing each other.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader and the writer are both trying to dress up and present their best selves and then there's that moment, when suddenly, as a reader, you're not exactly you anymore, and likewise, as a writer, you're not really you.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

I change the world, the world changes me.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Lady Jaye dressed me in her clothes the first day we met. The love we had was so strong, we wished we could become one. Then we thought, 'Why shouldn't we?'

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.