Quotes About Transformation

That's who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.

This campaign was never just about electing a president of the United States—as enormously important as that was. This campaign was about transforming America. It was about the understanding that real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up. It takes place when ordinary people, by the millions, are prepared to stand up and fight for justice.

The bottom line is that everything is connected to everything. Our political task is nothing less than the transformation of our nation. Health care for all, absolutely. But in order to create a healthy society, we also need to end poverty and provide decent-paying jobs for all people. We need a strong educational system, a clean environment, and equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality. These, in fact, are all health-related issues.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

I don't think we can ever say who we are in any fixed sense. Our own curiosity and sense of identification with others drive us constantly toward creative change.

When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.

Change never come without a fight. And you should know by reading this that joy never come without pain.

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

They've filed down whatever edges we used to have.

How does a pearl develop into an oyster? A jagged grain of sand makes its way into the oyster's shell and makes its life unbearable. The oyster exudes slime to cover the grain of sand and the slime eventually hardens into a pearl. The oyster nearly dies in the process. To hell with the pearl, give me the healthy oyster!

Geh ich zeitig in die Leere Komm ich aus der Leere voll Wenn ich mit dem Nichts verkehre Weiß ich wieder, was ich soll Wenn ich liebe, wenn ich fühle Ist es eben auch Verschleiß Aber dann, in der Kühle Werd ich wieder heiß

So wie es ist, bleibt es nicht.

What happens to the hole once the cheese has been eaten?

Sapete come si sviluppa la perla nell'ostrica? Un corpo estraneo insopportabile, per esempio un granello di sabbia, penetra dentro al guscio, e l'ostrica, per seppellire quel granello, secerne calce; e in questo processo rischia la morte. Allora, dico io, al diavolo la perla, purché l'ostrica resti sana!

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself…. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with … that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been … the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

But through this Armageddon the world will pass into a realm of peace, of brotherhood, of co-operation, and will forget the darkness and the terrors of the night in the joy that cometh in the morning.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and -- as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis -- emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

And this miniature poodle was trapped in the alley, struggling to hold his head out of the water by propping his front paws up on a piece of steel frame." They clambered in and got the dog out. Days later, after a good bath at Tylertown, the little grey poodle they had rescued turned out to be white as snow.

If change can be catalyzed by emotion, the rate of change should be astronomical.

After explaining how a pearl is made she said: "It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty.

Two of the upstairs windows were boarded up, as if the house had closed its eyes in shame and whispered, Look what's become of me. As I stood surveying the property and wondering how it had come to such ruin, I realized that unless I pulled myself together and found a way to ground myself into my life, I could end up just as sad and empty as that old house.