Quotes About Transformation

Step out of the history that is holding you back, Step into the new story you are willing to create.

power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle

Who you're meant to evolve from where you are right now.

Turn your wounds into wisdom

Tiyatro sahnelerinde y?llarca aÄŸlad?ktan sonra,hayatta içtenlikle aÄŸlayan bir kad?na dönüÅŸmem raslant? deÄŸildir.

the place we return to is never the same place we left.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Kitab? okumadan önce bir dünyam vard?, kitab? okuduktan sonra baÅŸka bir dünyam olmuÅŸtu. Åžimdi konuÅŸmal?yd?k, çünkü ben bu dünyada yapayaln?z kalm??t?m.

Akl?m ba??mdan gitti, ben ben deÄŸildim art?k; bunu çok iyi biliyordum, kendimi b?rak?p peÅŸinden koÅŸtum.

But as we all know, the place we return to is never the same place we left.

Bütün hayat?m Ä°stanbul'un yak?l?p, y?k?l?p, tahrip edilip deÄŸiÅŸtirilmesinin hikayesidir. Bu, insan?n kendi hat?ralar?n?n, kendi hat?rlad?klar?n?n, baÄŸl? olduÄŸu sokaklar?n, çevrelerin, neredeyse haf?zas?na, ezberine ald??? görüntülerin yok edilmesi hikâyesidir ve benim için çok draml?, ac?l? ve a??r bir hikâyedir.

As Çetin drove us home, slowly and carefully, I realized I was happy. These dark, empty streets that now belonged to Istanbul's dog packs, these avenues so ugly by daylight, hemmed in by concrete apartment buildings in such dreadful condition that it sapped my will just to look at them-now they looked alluringly mysterious, like poems.

Um dia abri um livro e toda a minha vida mudou. Desde a primeira página, sofri com tanta força o poder do livro que senti o meu corpo apartado da cadeira e da mesa a que me sentava.

U ovoj zemlji jedino kukavice opstaju. Ali svaka kukavica ?itav život sanjari kako ?e se jednoga dana preobraziti u junaka, nije li tako?

Fransa'da en az?ndan elli y?l süren o çaÄŸ, bizde beÅŸ ay bile sürmedi.

Oysa hayat?m?zdaki utanç verici ÅŸeyler bir müzede sergilenirlerse, hemen gururlan?lacak ÅŸeylere dönüÅŸürler.

A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once a miniaturist's artistry enters our souls this way, it becomes the criterion for the beauty of our world.

Gledao sam kako se mijenjaju ljudi koji su mi nekada bili uzor i kako nestaju oni kojima sam se želio dopasti; nijedan mi se san nije ostvario, ni u pjesni?koj karijeri, ni u životu.

Eskiden Ä°stanbul daha fakir, daha küçük, daha mutluydu deseler inanmazd?m belki, ama kalbim böyle diyordu. Çünkü arkamda b?rakt???m sevgilimin evi yerli yerinde ?hlamur ve kestane aÄŸaçlar?n?n içindeydi, ama kap?dan sordum bir baÅŸkas? oturuyordu art?k orada.

what I really hoped to find on these trips wandering the shops, the cinemas, and the museums of the Western world was an idea, an object, a painting - anything at all - that might transform and illuminate my own life.

Mevlut used to toil on foot through mud and rain, up and down these very same streets, and now here they were slipping right through with ease. Life, too, slipped by in much the same way, speeding up as it ran along the tracks laid out by time and fortune.

Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep growing, renewing the mind, constantly reaching out for the new and progressive, the retrograding, disintegrating, aging, deteriorating processes cannot be operative.

Hold any particular thought in the mind persistently until it has formed grooves in the brain-tissue and become dominant in the brain structure, and you have permanently changed the character in that direction. You have only to change your mind to a desired direction, holding it there tenaciously until you have formed a new mental habit. Then you are, in that particular, a new creature.