Quotes About Transformation

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

SURRENDER—Pray Psalm 139:23–24: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Commit to respond to whatever the Holy Spirit reveals to you.

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.

You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.

his love was totally different from every other love in my life. Unlike them, it didn't expect me to behave in a certain way. It didn't change into displeasure or anger or even hatred if I didn't comply. It healed me.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.

But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain— because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering. All impurities fall away from gold only when it's heated to melting.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

All things in this world change and pass away— some after many years, some overnight.

Bushes would pull in their sharp thorns and burst into flower when I watered them or loosened the earth around their roots. Squirrel-like creatures, their long white hair smooth as silk-thread, would scurry up to take berries from my palm.

I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

Things are breaking down inside of her. She waits to see if she can build new, satisfying shapes from them.

I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so swift and bright that no man could snare them.

You are a daughter of independence, the country's future. Women like you are the ones for whom we fought and died, the ones who will transform India. You must carry the flag forward. You may fall from time to time. We all did. What is important is to get up again.

Behold, we give you this girl, a gift beyond what you asked for. Take good care of her, for she will change the course of history.

After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I'm not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.

I didn't realize—until this earthquake, until today—that my withholding was a worse kind of betrayal, a betrayal of the self. It was time for me to change.

I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

Remain true to yourself—and to your heart. Be courageous and remember, even the blackest night must end in dawn.

Trying to show you something. The stick—it scared you, right? It may even have hurt you, if you hadn't been so quick. But look—in trying to burn you, it's consuming itself. That's what happens to a heart—