Quotes About Transformation

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

It's hard to believe in miracles until you've seen one happen. But once you've seen, well, life alters and you can never look

When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.

Time either erodes us, or it silts us up. There is no cast iron shore.

Sometimes I lay my body down on a marble slab . . . and become poetry.

This is what happens to fire. It consumes itself.

Mon livre, pour exister, avait mangé d'autres livres.

That was then. This is now.

Tal vez había cambiado de verdad. Y tal vez, si ella se ponía unas zapatillas rojas y entrechocaba los talones, aparecía en Kansas.

Although I was terribly let down after that, there was one good side to the experience. The more that decent people became interested in me for decent reasons, the stronger I became.

If you stop evolving as a person, you're done." Sylvia Hasenkopf-

She wondered if forgiveness was more like peeling an onion than breaking an egg. That had been top-layer forgiveness. This would be deep forgiveness, boring down to the bedrock, to the taproot, to the core of who she was and what Daniel had done.

What's happened to you, Daniel?" she asked, seeming more annoyed than curious. "I became a Christian," he said, "a follower of Jesus," and as soon as the words left his mouth, his head became clearer.

How many new girls will it take to change the world?

Corporate prayer transformed Karla's small, cold isolation cell into a holy room where God's child enjoyed solitude with her Creator.

People, families, organizations in marginalized communities struggle everyday; it is a way of life that is necessary for survival, and when theorized and mobilized can become a powerful strategy for transformation

Struggle can be mobilized as resistance and as transformation. It can provide the means for working things out 'on the ground', for identifying and solving problems of practice, for identifying strengths and weaknesses, for refining tactics and uncovering deeper challenges.

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

A dream is both Life and Death in that it takes from one and gives to the other.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. In becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me. And be less like you.