Quotes About Transformation

When she designs, and then lives, her own destiny, a woman naturally sets right everything wrong in our world.

Rupture allows the part of a woman that she has outgrown to die and fall away. It updates the parts of us that feel helpless; like we need someone to do it for us. It forces us to take a seat firmly inside of our power. It is required for us to grow.

Du musst keine schwierigen Wege mehr suchen, sagte ich mir, um an deine Grenzen zu kommen. Auch wenn du keine senkrechten Felswände mehr hochgehen kannst, geh deinen Weg weiter. Die Welt also war nicht mehr dieselbe. Hatte ich aber meine Erfolge nicht auch der Kunst der Anpassung zu verdanken gehabt? Immer im Leben, wenn es kein Weiter zu geben schien, war die Wende gekommen. Oft unverhofft.

Il ne faut pas comprendre, il faut voir. Paris vous guérira. PARIS VOUS GUÉRIRA DU PASSÉ !

Écoutez, Coban, c'est terminé. —C'est commencé...

The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.

Villains are not born—they are made.  And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.

The transformation of the Nazarean into a divine, preexistent, literal son of God whose death and resurrection launch a new genus of eternal beings responsible for judging the world has no basis in any writings about Jesus that are even remotely contemporary with Paul's (a firm indication that Paul's Christ was likely his own creation).

There would be no more record of who was rich and who was poor. Everyone in this new and divinely inspired world order would begin anew.

RELIGIONS BECOME INSTITUTIONS when the myths and rituals that once shaped their sacred histories are transformed into authoritative models of orthodoxy (the correct interpretation of myths) and orthopraxy (the correct interpretation of rituals), though one is often emphasized over the other.

All these schools of though gradually transformed into legal institutions, the diversity of ideas and freedom of opinion that characterized their early development gave way to rigid formalism, strict adherence to precedent, and an almost complete stultification of independent though

Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a pacifistic spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius (d. 395) made the itinerant Jewish preacher's movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity emerged.

All that matters is to be on a path, to be constantly moving toward the top—one measured, controlled, and strictly supervised step at a time—passing diligently through specific "abodes and stations" along the Way, each of which is marked by an ineffable experience of spiritual evolution, until one finally reaches the end of the journey: that moment of enlightenment in which the veil of reality is stripped away, the ego obliterated, and the self utterly consumed by God.

Invest in the life you have to get the life you want

Take back your brain. Take back your heart. Live as your soul intended.

every which way, making her resemble a cross between Cruella DeVille and Medusa, she thought disgustedly. She needed a barrette, a headband, something. Inspiration struck. Lou rifled through the bridal debris until she found the item she'd been looking for: her veil. Lips pursed

No me interesa curarme, sólo quiero cambiar las alucinaciones. ¿Se

NEVER MIND THE CHEESE —who moved my weekend?

We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.

Just now I was thinking that I'd died and had to come to life again, had to build up a life myself. Only the new edifice has to be built with the ruins of the old. Or rather, I feel like a tree that has been blasted level with the ground, with only the roots still living. Some even of the roots are dead, some I have to kill, the rest have to grow again somehow.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?