Quotes About Transformation

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.