Quotes About Transformation

Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

A man is a god in ruins.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.