Quotes About Transformation

It begins with you. Value yourself. Then value others. The quiet contagion of example can spread. It will make a difference, one person at a time. If each of us chooses to make even a small difference in our corner of the universe, then perhaps we can be part of a movement that could one day transform the world.

Pygmalion made her; then she kicked him in the nuts, ran away, and developed a personality.

That's what heartbreak did: turned normal, reliable people into bitter survivors, turned them into what they least wanted to be.

To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.

Rain changes things. Nothing is as it was after rain.

Das Roß fegt dahin zwischen sanft geschwungenen, grauglitzernden Buchenstämmen — quer durchs deutsche Märchen, durchs nächtige, reiten die Vettern hinüber zum Hohlweg, zum Treffpunkt — hinter sich verbrennend alle Schiffe und Brücken.

Truth of Existence I'm getting pretty tired of you humans pissing around wit' da bickering t'ween ya's. I have given all of ya what c'ha need to fulfill yer purpose. Think this is a game? It ain't! Don't you humans have any idea? What I see is the masses have for eons let themselves be lead about hither and yon by a minority gang that is totally self serving! I'm not gonna wait much longer for ya'll to get yer s..t together. You won't like how I'll bring ya's up to grade. KnowyerLoved, CWD

Dream is not so different from deed as many believe," he wrote. "All activity of men begins as dream and later becomes dream once more.

The biblical revelation proclaims from start to finish that the old self is a lost cause, and that man faces the future with hope only as a new creature, as a reborn self, spiritually enlivened to the supernatural world;

You never change things by fighting the existing reality,

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

However, we must not forget that it will be some twenty years before the ordinary run of people begin to think the thoughts of the educated person of today.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.