Quotes About Transformation

Most men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord, we must remove the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world within.

That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action - Larsen

So she guessed you could word hard to make yourself who you wanted to be and yet find that the passing years had transformed you beyond your own recognition. End up disappointed in yourself, despite your best efforts.

And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life.

We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed

Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.

She had made her way to a place where an entirely other order prevailed from what she had always known.

converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.

The act of posting a letter would become too complex with significance: a walk down the stair-way, over the door-stop, on to the side-walk, across the pave-ment and over to the mail-box. Common objects would dissolve into their primal states, each having an independent life.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Viktor Frankl asserted, "when we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves" (Frankl, 1984).

Pues si los cambios que experimentan los animales inferiores son tan maravillosos y difíciles de descubrir, ¿por qué no habría de haber cambios igual de maravillosos o más, e igualmente difíciles de descubrir, en los seres superiores? ¿No

Once a heart breaks…it doesn't just grow back. It's not a lizard's tail. It's more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it's not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn't make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don't mend and they don't heal. They just don't work that way.

Receiving the grace of God never means that we continue with the way things were before. It separates us from the old; it never justifies the old. It embraces the new and calls the old into question.

Reasonable people maintain the world. Passionate people change it. And wise people guide the change process.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

Cuando la gracia de Cristo ilumine su vida, descubrirá que no hace las cosas por temor, por vergüenza o por culpa, sino que las hace por amor.

Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.

El Espíritu Santo viene para darnos una forma de vida completamente diferente. una vida que se desarrolla en un plano diferente. Se vive por encima de la culpa y la vergüenza, se vive por encima de los temores de la vida. Nos capacita para vivir como vencedores y no como víctimas.

What is stripped away is not our humanity but our idolatries, not faith but our false hopes, not meaning but out illusions. Dying in order to live.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)

Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly colored facts, shitting semidigested conclusions. Being human again feels inexplicably odd. (331)

Better get accustomed to it, she told herself, mentally adding a note to her checklist: relearn how to human.