Quotes About Transformation

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

The way you think about yourself will become the way you see yourself, whether it's true or false. Eventually, you'll believe what you tell yourself. If you tell yourself negative, distorted statements about yourself, you will act in negative, destructive ways. If you replace the lies with the truth about who you really are, then you will begin to walk, talk, and live like the child of God you already are.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Redención significa que el dolor ha sido tratado y cambiado tan radicalmente que no sólo pierde la capacidad de hacernos daño, sino que también obtiene el poder para hacer algo bueno"1.

All is changed, in an instant. It is only left to do the work.

The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.

Stella expected to see fire in Mr. Spencer's eyes, fire like the flames that had made tinder of his house. Instead his eyes were soft, gentle, and brown like the earth. "I have to show them they didn't destroy me," he said simply.

Ashes don't necessarily signify an end.

and my job is to eat the whole car of my anger, part by part, some parts ground down to steel-dust.

It struck cold awe to my heart, now, to look at who I had been who had thought it was impossible that he or I could touch another.

Did I ask with the space in the ground, like a portion of breath, where my body will rest, when it is motionless, when its elements move back into the earth?

But look! I am starting to give him up! I believe he is not coming back. Something has died, inside me, believing that

Along the runway, wind poured through the coat of horsetail fur, and terns, in their skirts, fluttered above the thumbnail and crochet-hook snails, and we knock-swashed up, excreting fumes of carbon fern and marrow—and in the seat pocket, in front of me, were crimped, furled buds, stems bushy with fresh thorns, and her last flagon of perfume, its glass dove alighting to seize it...

Once, each summer, I howl, and draw myself back, out of there

he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from—what kind of family brought us into this world," Josie said softly. "We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

She was not who she wanted to be. And not only did she not know how to make herself over into someone else, she wasn't even sure who she wanted to become.

Last time I was watching her, I left her in her crib and when I came back, she was a puppy. Just for a couple of hours, then she was herself again.' I mean, I almost couldn't speak. I said, 'Did it occur to you to tell me this?' And she said, 'Well, I thought it might be a one-time thing. I didn't want to worry you.

Without an understanding of what a thing really is, it cannot be either uncovered or changed. (Aubrey)