Quotes About Transformation

Time is the greatest innovator.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

When I was fourteen, I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

New roads; new ruts.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, drest.