Quotes About Transformation

Harold MacMillan

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

As the Persian poet Rumi once wrote, 'Light enters at the place of the wound.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

metamorphosed into a creature as evil as any mythical Hulder: "a woman

Outraged at having the site of the tragedy transformed into what one observer called a "mass murder amusement park," an angry mob tore down the barricade, "and everyone was then free to visit the death spot without charge or restraint.

In the years immediately following the end of the Great War, approximately fifty thousand one-room schools were replaced with these "fine upstanding structures—schools that in every way compare[d] with big-city institutions." By 1922, there were roughly "12,000 of this new type of school in the United States." Indiana alone had more than one thousand; Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota more than nine hundred, four hundred, and three hundred, respectively.6

Every instance of forgiveness and release is a like a cosmic galaxy of potential being birthed through love.

Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar through which I vowed to write my own stories.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Now Bridal Veil Falls, stern and forbidding in winter, was leaping down joyously to join the San Miguel River.

Right now this feels like everything. Right now it always is. It's only afterwards that we can see there's more than this. You can be informed by this without being formed by this just as a calm before the storm there is a dark before the dawn in this.

People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis

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Tsjallingtsjes strenge gezicht was steeds bereid om van de ene seconde op de andere volledig te verschieten in iets totaal anders, alsof in een donkere kamer het licht werd aangedaan. Misschien was het talent tot lachen eigenlijk wel de ware geest, meer dan het vermogen tot intellectuele krachttoeren.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Well, I might even get used to the idea that she had no tail.