Quotes About Transformation

All five of these factors—population, distribution, aspiration, technology and governance—will significantly shape humanity's prospects for getting into the Doughnut's safe and just space, which is why they are all at the heart of ongoing policy debates. But they cannot bring about the scale of transformation required unless we also transform the economic thinking that we bring to bear.

I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .

I WILL NOT BE A DINOSAUR POO!

Molly watched the pale water, changing, always changing, and always the same, and she could feel him near, not touching, not speaking. Thin clouds chased across the face of the swelling moon. Soon it would be full, the harvest moon, the end of Indian summer. The moon was so cleanly outlined, so unambiguous, she thought. A misshapen bowl, like an artifact made by inexpert hands that would improve with practice.

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you, then; you were safe.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday

In 1829, when Boston's Tremont House opened its Greek Revival doors, the hotel world changed forever. Its innovations included individual patent locks on each of the 170 rooms, French cooking, gaslight in the public rooms and a substantial chunk

groundbreaking, earth-shattering invention.

The only constant was change.

It crumbled apart into ash, going from form to formlessness. To everything, it's season. The pine cone grew into being, burned bright, and now it had disappeared. That was natural.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons.

The Chinese believe that whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.

The change which takes place when we trust Jesus Christ is not only a change in our view of Christ. Through Christ, we look differently at both God's creation and our own circumstances.

Man, in and by the salvation of God, is delivered from the tenacity of the egocentric and commences to sing of the glory of God. It is this salvation that opens doors and windows toward God's handiwork.

In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.

Grace is at work even in fallen man ... to bend partially back in the right direction those human powers and endowments which were man left to himself would be wholly perverted.

The Spirit alone could perform the miracle of making man walk on the road of sanctity without a sense of his own worth.

The gospel does not leave unchanged the person who does not listen and remains disobedient ... unbelief can lead only to progressive hardening of the heart.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.