Quotes About Transformation

Night moves don't work in the morning

We have the iPhone, the iPad, and now we have the motherfuckering iMan.

say and the problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates. You turn the page and there is nothing

This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots call FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.

Well, like, the screenplay is about the book, so, like, it's kind of the book, only in different form, like the way iced coffee is still coffee even though it's cold.

you're a butterfly and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high away, bye-bye),

And it does, at least for a little while. It melts down the pieces of us that hurt or feel distress; it makes room for some other self to emerge, a version that's new and improved and decidedly less conflicted. And after a while it becomes central to the development of that version, as integral to forward motion as the accelerator on a car. Without the drink you are version A. With the drink, version B. And you can't get from A to B without the right equipment.

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.

Loving a dog deeply does have a cellular quality, as though the most central part of you—your whole nervous system—gets tied into the bond, into the life you create together. You do get reprogrammed: a person with a dog becomes a dog person, with all the change that implies.

a true alcoholic is someone who's turned from a cucumber into a pickle; you can try to stop a cucumber from turning into a pickle, but there's no way you can turn a pickle back into a cucumber.

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

Death either destroys us or frees us.

Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren't there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.

Eskiden unlu maddeler pahal? idi. Åžimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onlar? gölgede b?rakt?.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin taraf?na geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?

Many years later, Martha revisited the same Caribbean islands. She found yachts and rubber Zodiac dinghies, plastic bottles on the seabed, casinos and boutiques in the sleepy ports, and great bald patches of land, stripped for development, where once all had been jungle and green. It was, she wrote sadly, a world lost. Returning

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

I have since become convinced that when we define ourselves by our wounds, we burden and lose our physical and spiritual energy and open ourselves to the risk of illness.

God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.

no life is ever beyond the reach of the gospel's restorative powers, no matter how a woman's story plays out.

Sometimes walking with God means learning truth requires means rethinking your entire life.

Conflict brings out the leader in us, transforms our lives from the mundane to the cosmic, and by God's grace forges us into more compassionate, selfless leaders.

Conflict in our stories isn't in the way; it is the way--to becoming better leaders, better image bearers, to creating a better story--to the fulfillment of the Story.

The English word psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind," comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.

As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.