Quotes About Transformation

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, 'I want to do that... how do you do that?'

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.

I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?

I guess change is good for any of us.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths.

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Your beginning never dictates your destnation.

Prayer really can change things.

The conviction that you can change your life starts with your own thinking. If you're going through dark times and it feels as if there's not enough breath and light in your soul to keep you moving higher, you need to believe that now is the time to break through. The seed of change starts as a thought in your own mind. You begin by believing it.

So my thing is, whatever you don't like, change it, but change it from the inside first.

Jesus. They had made mistakes. Some had done terrible things and yet were still able to find their way to higher.

Ordinarily, that would have meant living in anxiety and fear, but my father was a different kind of man when he was around Mae. Instead of boiling up in anger and violence, he was a placid lake. He would even brag about what

I was able to forgive Emmitt, that the fuel firing me was no longer anger but love and compassion. That's when my life really turned around. Once that happened, I met true success.

What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

If you like your natural self, don't worry about it, but if you feel insecure about something ... I have a magic bag of beauty tricks to make you who you want to be.

Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problem. Transformation, moksha, liberation, and all that stuff are just variations on the same theme: permanent happiness. The body cannot take that. The pleasure of sex, for instance, is by nature temporary. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long, it would be destroyed. Wanting to impose a fictitious, permanent state of happiness on the body is a serious neurological problem.

God or Enlightenment is the ultimate pleasure, uninterrupted happiness. No such thing exists. Your wanting something that does not exist is the root of your problem. Transformation, moksha, and all that stuff are just variations of the same theme: permanent happiness. The body can't take uninterrupted pleasure for long; it would be destroyed. Wanting a fictitious permanent state of happiness is actually a serious neurological problem.

Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.