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Quotes About Transformation

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.
~ Parker J. Palmer
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
~ Ramakrishna
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
~ George Meredith
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
~ Ismail Kadare
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
~ George Sand
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
~ Edwin Way Teale
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.
~ Wayne Muller
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.
~ Harville Hendrix
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
~ James Russell Lowell
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
~ Vince Poscente
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
~ Herman Melville
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
~ Anton Chekhov
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
~ Giambattista Vico
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
~ David O. McKay