Quotes About Transformation

one of the most effective is that advocated by Frank Laubach in his excellent book, Prayer, the Mightiest Power in the World.

Change your thoughts and you change the world

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.

Change your thoughts and you change your world

Change your thoughts and change your world.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

We were created as celebrants of the sacrament of life, of its transformation into life in God, communion with God … [R]eal life is "eucharist," a movement of love and adoration toward God, the movement in which alone the meaning and value of all that exists can be revealed and fulfilled … [I]n Christ, the new Adam, the perfect man, this eucharistic life was restored to man. For He Himself was the perfect Eucharist.

To "remember Jesus" in their eating was not simply to recall a past event. It was to call on Jesus and invite him to transform what they were doing together.18 Jesus' presence at the meal could thus be an "effective" presence that challenged and corrected their eating practices.

Can you spell everything? asked Milo admiringly. Just about, replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

I heard my blood, singing in its prison, and the sea sang with a murmur of light, one by one the walls gave way, all of the doors were broken down, and the sun came bursting through my forehead, it tore apart my closed lids, cut loose my being from its wrappers, and pulled me out of myself to wake me from this animal sleep and its centuries of stone

History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality--if only for an instant--by means of creation.

life is other, always there, further off, beyond you and beyond me, always on the horizon, life which unlives us and makes us strangers, that invents our face and wears it away

o love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes, desires take flesh thoughts take flesh, wings sprout on the backs of the slave, the world is real and tangible, wine is wine, bread regains its savor, water is water, to love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger

The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face.

La sexualidad es animal; el erotismo es humano.... Y que consiste, esencialmente, en desviar o cambiar el impulso sexual reproductor y transformarlo en una representación. El amor... es una ceremonia y representación... una purificación..que transforma al sujeto y al objeto del encuentro erótico en personas únicas. El amor es la metáfora final de la sexualidad.

Puedo tocarla pero también hablar con ella. Y puedo oírla y más: beberme sus palabras... La transubstanciación: el cuerpo se vuelve voz, sentido; y el alma es corporal. Todo amor es eucaristía.

El arte de amar ¿Es arte de morir? Amar Es morir y revivir y remorir: Es la vivacidad.

There are moments that explode and become stars from "Seeds for a psalm

Pero su recuerdo no me abandona. Quien ha visto la Esperanza, no la olvida. La busca bajo todos los cielos y entre todos los hombres. Y sueña que un día va a encontrarla de nuevo, no sabe dónde, acaso entre los suyos. En cada hombre late la posibilidad de ser o, más exactamente, de volver a ser , otro hombre.

History as the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality - if only for an instant - by means of creation.