Quotes About Transformation

D'ye mark him, Flask? whispered Stubb; the chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out.

Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.

Gelgit çekilmesinde ölen adamlar vard?r, baz?lar? cezirde, diÄŸerleri ise med halinin zirvesinde ölürler. Kendimi köpüklere bat?r?lm??, çatlamak üzere olan dalga gibi hissediyorum...

The coming of the kingdom brings deliverance, not only for the soul, but also for the body. It embraces nothing less than the re-creation of heaven and earth.

South Wind had been, in Marjorie's visions, a new clear world, a world where a grimy Bronx childhood and a fumbling Hunter adolescence were forgotten dreams, a world where she could at last find herself and be herself—clean, fresh, alone, untrammelled by parents. In a word, it had been the world of Marjorie Morningstar.

Change always takes much longer than we expect because to make room for the new, we have to get rid of some of the old selves we are still dragging around and, unconsciously, still invested in becoming.

Working identity is not just who we are. It is also who we are not. Being able to discard possibilities means we are making progress.

Most people who have made big career changes have heard loved ones tell them, "You're out of your mind." Sabotage is not their intention, but a shared history has entrenched certain expectations, and reinventing oneself can amount to breaking the implicit "contract." People who have quit smoking, lost weight, or gotten divorced are familiar with the mixed reactions of friends, who see the change as loss.

Such was the transformation which had come over European society in the course of ten Christian centuries. Slavery had gone, and in its place had come that establishment of free possession which seemed so normal to men, and so consonant to a happy human life. No particular name was then found for it. To-day, and now that it has disappeared, we must construct an awkward one, and say that the Middle Ages had instinctively conceived and brought into existence the Distributive State.

Those who are made can be unmade.

To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.

the real achievement isn't getting out of the place where you were born to build a new identity for yourself. It's better to stay put and change the culture—genuinely transform—where you are.

we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

and now she appeared a woman, beautiful, tall and skilled at

Ojalá os volvierais agua y tierra ahí mismo donde estáis sentados, hombres sin corazón y sin honor.

The catalysts for transformation would be three: freedom to escape group boundaries; ideas; and the games subcultures were about to learn to play. We'll see in coming chapters how this triad altered utterly the workings of mass mind.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at the rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes). Machines

I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the

The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell.