Quotes About Transformation

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here." "I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal." "Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here." "I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal." "Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlightenment befogged all the windows.

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

the transformative power of intelligence, self-reliance, and words.

The idea of the original had no place.

All of the men and women the writer had ever known had become grotesques.

You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.

Many people are so identified with their shame-and-pain stories that they're scared to shift out of that identity; they would rather remain miserable than take the risk of stepping into a new story. Remember: resistance clings to the familiar at all costs, even if what's familiar is making you miserable.

we're broken open, brought to our knees, dragged into the underworld not to be tortured or because there's something wrong or disordered with us, but because there's something right and beautiful inside that is longing to be seen and known.

As the bride lets go of her singlehood identity, she prepares an internal space where her new identity as wife will eventually bloom.

Improvement usually means doing something we have never done before.

The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed.

How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all. Without natural resources, our hopes were tied to our own creativity.

How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

But in my experience as a teacher, enlightenment usually sneaks up on people. Sometimes they don't quite realize how enlightened they've become over time because they have gradually acclimatized to it.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.