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Quotes About Transformation

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
~ Robert Breault
Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.
~ Jentezen Franklin
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
~ Terence McKenna
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
~ Richard Rohr
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.
~ Pema Chodron
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
~ Lili Taylor
Themes recur again and again in my work.
~ Eve Arnold
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
~ Joichi Ito
Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.
~ Greg Laurie
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
~ Maya Angelou
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
~ Heraclitus
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.
~ Tulku Thondup
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
~ Christopher Love
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.
~ Henry Green
So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.
~ Jim Elliot
Exchange is creation.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
God continues to work miracles in my life.
~ Willie Aames
The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.
~ Connie Zweig