Quotes About Transformation

Plants are nature's alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil, and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive

Claude Lévi-Strauss described the work of civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked—nature into culture.

The mystic feels as if his own will were in abeyance, and indeed sometimes as if he were grasped and held by a superior power." This sense of having temporarily surrendered to a superior force often leaves the person feeling as if he or she has been permanently transformed.

How do the alchemies of the kitchen transform the raw stuffs of nature into some of the great delights of human culture?

Two years after his departure from Harvard, Alpert embarked on a spiritual journey to India and returned as Ram Dass

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

We all sin. We all can change. We all can be reborn in Christ.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

The NBA was once a league full of guys who topped out at 5-foot-9, wore belts in their shorts, and reeked of pomade. When it came to dishing the ball there was only one option: the bounce pass. The game's changed a lot since then.

I've been working on my relationship with God, and when you work on your relationship with God, it gets to a point where you don't want to walk down the sinful road anymore.

Growing up, when I was about 14, I used to dress as a girl back then and sing.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

Lush green forests, chirping birds and the gentle beast... that's what the shoot for 'Haathi... ' is like every single day. A life-changing experience which not only is beautiful at the face of it but the soul too.

Every single day I'm shocked.

When I was shooting for 'Mahabharat,' in those one or one and a half years, I didn't live my life. I was living as Arjun. Not even one single day I was Shaheer. But that paid off very well, as everyone loved my role.