Quotes About Transformation

The change you seek isn't out there somewhere in space. The change comes from within you. When you bring a deliberate awareness to your daily tasks – especially the most mundane of them – you've changed the whole complexion of your day. In fact, you've transformed the essence of your very being.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until they have been broken deeply".

But are we not both made for this very thing? If you pluck an apple from a tree, is the tree ruined? If you use a new pen, is it ruined, or is it finally fulfilling the purpose for which it was created?

Pluribus Unum. In my view that does not refer only to states, but also to our varied people. Whatever brought these strangers together in this place—chance, fate, or divine intervention—their lives will be forever transformed, forever bound together even if only by the slenderest of threads, because they shared stories.

I realized that a book can reach out and embrace you like an arm and make you walk away from everything you thought you understood.

Omigahd," she laughed again. "You are such the after shot now. You look so, so New York." Youaaare such the aaaafter shaaat naaaw. Michigan. This state has been sponsored by the Letter A.

no more pep talks about believing in toads, Liza said. Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them? Bonnie said. Thats frogs, Liza Said. Entirely different species.

Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on.

I'm stuck in the old me, and I don't know how to get out. I just know the old me isn't the real me anymore.

Where's my Italian lace? Where's my bouffant sleeves? Where's my goddamn hoop skirt? The same place as your goddamned morals, you worthless tramp. It's been modernized, Brenda, Agnes said. When you pass something on to someone else, you have to expect changes. You don't get it back.

Mas, para mim, a leitura é muito mais que isso. Os livros ensinam a você como outras pessoas pensam o que estão sentindo e como se transformam de seres comuns em seres extraordinários. Muitas vezes eles são tão atraentes e inteligentes que você prefere passar o tempo lendo sobre elas a fazer qualquer outra coisa.

You leave a place and people and after a while, you change, they change and whatever it was that connected you to begin with is gone forever

As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

It wasn't a "Eureka!" kind of moment—it was the slow realization that the parts of me that had been empty were starting to fill up again. Yet, as gradual as this all was, there was one surreal moment that crystallized it for me—one moment where I suddenly understood what Idol meant to people and what it was doing for me.

I think that the times that I have to go into the woods at night have poisoned me. I

A girl named Jo once had a life / But that's gone now; she's only wife.

She'd seen it happen to her friends, fellow PhD students, some who'd published their work. Put a ring on their finger and, through some dark magic, they turned into wives and mothers, and instead of talking about Elizabethan poetry or symbolism in Shakespeare's sonnets or how the market economy had shaped post–Civil War America, it was all teething and toilet training and which towns had the most desirable school districts.

Diana could have spent the rest of her life content, with just those episodes, and those questions, to remind her of what she'd survived and what she'd done. She could have lived like Eve in the garden, ignoring the snake, avoiding the apple tree. And then, one day, the apple tree found her.

instead of cash. It took me the better part of another week to register

When I looked up, I wasn't surprised to find that my feet had taken me back to where it had all began. In the daytime, the windows at Dive 75 were dark, the door shut tight. It didn't look special, but it was, in a way, the place where I'd been born. The site of my greatest shame and my greatest triumph.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive… it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Time has the power to separate us, not only from others, but also from ourselves—a fact that's hard to grasp. We know that time also separates us from circumstances that might have turned us into very different people.

Quante volte bisogna tornare a imparare, a scoprire e a riscoprire ciò che già si sa, quanti travestimenti bisogna strappar via per poter penetrare le cose fino all'osso?

Angelina would have gone on loving Edwin forever and ever and ever if only Edwin had not grown so strange and different. Edwin would have adored Angelina through eternity if Angelina had only remained the same as when he first adored her.