Quotes About Transformation

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Change brings opportunity.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.