Quotes About Transformation

You can haul the girl out of the trash, but you can never haul the trash out of the girl.

Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.

You have to believe that, someday, you will be your own second coming.

Use the distance between the facts and your yearning to change those facts as your personal redemption.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

When we've ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

They wanted to see the same Bethany they had known before—and frankly, I looked pretty changed. So I quickly set them straight: I was the same person on the inside.

The air changed. It had been dry, the Hill air I had grown used to. All in a moment the breeze went moist and soft, like a hand laid against me. I smelled salt and iodine, fish and weed, the coast and all that dwells there—its countless lives.

Another face shone through his man's face, like a stone through running water.

Because I was too afraid, I walked to the corpse and looked at it. It was bad. Then not so bad—a man turning into bone.

I am the heart that heals the stone

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

I used to be Snow White but then I drifted.

Strange Change B

I don't know what color I'll be when I come back!

This "betwixt and between" period is like living in a hallway of "divine discomfort." We know at some level that we need to let go, but we're not quite ready to do so yet. As bad as it might feel, this discomfort is often necessary to eventually move us into doing what we need to do. To this end, our unease is a gift.

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.

As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the 'fog' of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.

Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. "Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we've become.

Nubia is Wonder Woman's Black twin sister, and Sam Wilson is a Black guy who used to be the Falcon but is now Captain America.