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Quotes About Transformation

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
~ Carl Sagan
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.
~ John Newton
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
~ Leigh Steinberg
Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
~ Robin Quivers
Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
~ Carly Schroeder
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
~ Douglas Coupland
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
~ Rumi
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~ Joseph Stalin
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
~ Rumi
It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
~ Pema Chodron
But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.
~ Wendell Berry
It just all of a sudden came over me, so that in one breath I was lost and a stranger, and in the next I was found.
~ Wendell Berry
He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.
~ Wendell Berry
In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.
~ Wendell Berry
The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.
~ Wendell Berry
If I could have found in my mind a plain and simple way to be right, that would have been something. I would have been changed in another way, and my life ever afterward would have been different. But having reached the crisis—the crossroad, so to speak—I failed. I didn't have at all the feeling of being right.
~ Wendell Berry
If you talk a good line without being changed by what you say, then you are not just hypocritical and doomed; you have become an agent of the disease.
~ Wendell Berry
Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.
~ Wendell Berry
But it seemed to me that even if everything had been changed, I would have recognized it by the look of the sky.
~ Wendell Berry
And when we finally gathered ourselves together again among the ruins, we were changed.
~ Wendell Berry
Well, sir," Athey said, "where I used to be limber I'm stiff and where I used to be stiff I'm limber. Do you know what I'm talking about?
~ Wendell Berry