Quotes About Transformation

The city I inhabit now is not the city that I moved to in 1926; it has become a mean-spirited action movie complete with repulsive plot twists and preposterous dialogue.

As time went on, Eva grew to respect and even admire the eccentricities of Madame Zed. For example, rather than adapt to her surroundings, she transformed them.

Perfume should tell a story – the story of who you are, who you might be, perhaps even of who you fear becoming . . .

I thought I could change my character as easily as I could change my coat. But I've been searching for the right one ever since.

Kintsugi [is] not just a method of repair but also a philosophy. It's the belief that the breaks, cracks, and repairs become a valuable and esteemed part of the history of an object, rather than something to be hidden. That, in fact, the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

We are pushed by our pain until we are pulled by our vision.

But if I do not accept my responsibility, then I have not changed at all. You are right when you say I have shown my true face to the world. Now I must accept the consequences of a life built on truth, and embrace the woman I have become.

According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction.

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn't a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn't need to devour anything.

Suffering is not eliminated by the resurrection but transformed by it.

There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.

given a new name, chosen by the nuns, a more

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

You're cold, Virginia. How have you let yourself become so cold?

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Many of us were also taught that Jesus saves us from our pain and we're supposed to be "above it" instead of remembering Jesus entered pain directly—his own and the world's—to transform it.

I believe in every part of my soul that one of the most world-changing practices of love is to help create corrective experiences for people—to have them experience, in the flesh, something different than the damage they received in their family, life, or church.