Quotes About Transformation

They've healed me to pieces.

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.) So when this is all over, are we still gonna be the Skrull Beatles then? I quite fancy being the Skrull Monkees for a bit. The dialogue's easier. As long as I get to be Peter Tork.

in the Bible, neither God nor Jesus went around healing people willy-nilly. Whoever wanted to be changed had to cooperate in the process, and many times had to ask directly for what they wanted.

many people will only change due to desperation

If I still adhered to perfect work, I never would have written this imperfect book, which for the last decade or so has changed lives across the globe.

There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.

He desired to become the man he was impersonating.

I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

Hands, teeth, gut, thoughts even, were all simply more or less convenient to human circumstance, as my father was receding from human circumstance, so, too, were all of these particulars, back to some unknowable froth where they might be reassigned to be stars or belt buckles, lunar dust or railroad spikes. Perhaps they already were all of these things and my father's fading was because he realized this: My goodness, I am made from planets and wood, diamonds and orange peels ...

Rather than organize the workers and the factories, the peasants and the fields and the farms, they would organize the intellectuals and the academy, the artists and the media and the film industry. These would be the conveyor belts to deliver the fundamental transformation.

He stated emphatically that "Socialism cannot be brought into existence without revolution.

Such is the totalitarian task of communism. Indeed, the textbook definition of totalitarianism, which I have scribbled on the chalkboard every fall semester at Grove City College since 1997, is to fundamentally transform—specifically, to seek to fundamentally transform human nature via some form of political-ideological-cultural upheaval.

When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

Now we're known less for snipers' nests / than nests of singing birds

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

I find myself only by losing myself.

Better to burn than to rot.

The holiness of madness was transformed into the more humanist concept of 'wisdom'.

Our benefactor is retired Army Command Sergeant Major, a decorated Korean War veteran, who was given what we call a "plum assignment" at SHAPE just outside of Paris where he worked as an intelligence analyst and was given a Cosmic Top Secret clearance, the highest in the Command. It was there that his profound inner transformation from innocent "good soldier" to disillusioned, concerned citizen took place.

instead of tearing down the building, solidly made with a four-acre footprint, it was turned into a center for the arts—gallery upon gallery, with coffee shops and restaurants. Here and there iron clumps of machinery have been left on pedestals, looking like vorticist sculptures.

Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants

I think shows how nebulous some migrants regard this desire for transformation.