Quotes About Transformation

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain - your life will never be the same.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us.

The distance we set between ourselves and the events of our past life, which reduces their scale, the backlog of things we failed to notice at the time, the logic which connects them, which back then was invisible, the light shed on them by the epoch they belong to, which mankind already considers a moribund piece of history, their ultimate strangeness, which makes us look back on the person we were as though they were a different being, all these things conspire to turn our past into a dream.

Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

As a man thinketh within himself, so is he (Prov. 23:7) And later the words of Job: Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and light shall shine upon thy way. (Job 22:28) From the philosopher, James Allen, I learned: Through his thoughts, man holds the key to every situation and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.

Sometimes you have to jumpstart the world just to get it to be what even the world admits it should be

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.

Maybe when you put tears away uncried, everything you cry about from that day on contains a little of those tears.

I don't mean that I remember hearing about it. I remember the caul, and then the sudden absence of it.

If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and every time expecting a different result.

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They like the dank spaces. Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.

It's always 'something is lost, but something else is gained.

I think god made a mistake with me. I think I should have been a horse. He probably has a lot on his mind, you know. I don't just mean I want to be a horse, or I wish I was. I mean I think I am, only stuck in the wrong shell.

It's like life has given you this huge challenge to make sure that what was running in your family stops with you and doesn't go on any more than it has.

Great tragedy brings great growth, Anton. It wakes us up. It makes us into someone a little different from who we were before.

10. Before he met Mrs. G,

Just on the inside, though," Seth said. "Like in my chest. Like I breathe air into my chest, and there's more space in my lungs than before. But not my lungs really. I just feel like there's more room inside me than there used to be.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks? I could never figure that out.

I cover her with myself. See, if I have no body, I can be any shape I want. I can take up any amount of space I choose. I can be a blanket. Drape myself over her like a down comforter. I can pour myself over her head like water. I can shine on her like light, bathe her with myself until she feels something resembling warmth again. Don't believe it entirely, Mom, I say.

You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving.