Quotes About Transformation

How many of us are the same as we were at seventeen? Or even at twenty-five? We learn, we grow, and hopefully become better and wiser women. That's not something to regret. It's something to celebrate.

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.

when you figure out where you're messing up and you hate that behavior bad enough, that's where all the good parts of you begin.

L'utopia storica ha bisogno di volti che la incarnino.

Elk 'ideaal', in het begin gevoed door het bloed van zijn adepten, verbruikt zichzelf en verdwijnt naarmate het door de massa wordt overgenomen.

Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Gli eventi della vita ci cambiano. Come se la nostra anima - sempre che l'anima esista - fosse fatta di una plastilina che viene costantemente rimodellata.

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice....Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never look at any teen, or yourself, the same again. All you see is the child they once were.

There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood's just one of them.

Are you a degenerate, Fisher?" "I'm working on it.

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

For so many years, she'd followed a prescription that she'd trusted would result in a beautiful life. Girls don't fight back. They don't get angry. They don't demand things—especially not from men. They are loyal and faithful and quiet and trusting. But slowly, surely, all of those rules had unraveled. It was time to release. To let go. This was why she'd come here.

know the angels will come again as we heal our internal war and become like innocent children.

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

Everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.

See, there's three lights now where there was only two before.' I look out across the sea. There, the two lights are blinking as before, but with another, steady light, shining in between. 'Can you see it?' he says. 'I can,' I say. 'It's there.' And that is when he puts his arms around me and gathers me into them as though I were his own.

The world exploded into billions of atoms, and when it rearranged itself, it may have looked the same, but really, it was a Whole New World.

Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.

Claire: Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny.

To change yourself means to change the future.

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.