Quotes About Transformation

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

One of the most interesting developments in my practice of Stoicism has been my transformation from someone who dreaded insults into an insult connoisseur. For one thing, I have become a collector of insults: On being insulted, I analyze and categorize the insult. For another thing, I look forward to being insulted inasmuch as it affords me the opportunity to perfect my "insult game.

the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.

N?u anh th?c s? mu?n thoát kh?i nh?ng th? làm cho anh phi?n mu?n, ?i?u anh ?ang c?n làm không ph?i là chuy?n ??n m?t n?i khác mà là tr? thành m?t con ng??i khác

Three steps to becoming the happy person you were meant to be are: Locate your misbeliefs. (Jerry realized that he was telling himself lies.) Remove them. (He argued against them. "I am not lonely!") Replace misbeliefs with the truth. ("It's nonsense to say I'm unlovable and useless. I'm loved with an everlasting love by the God of the universe. In Him, I have countless talents and uses and I am infinitely valuable to Him.")

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

What is now proved was once imagined.

You'll quite remove the ancient curse.

He withers all in silence, and in his hand Unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Embrace losses, setbacks, or disadvantages as entry points into new solutions.

Second Law of Organizational Development: the successful outcome of any phase of organizational development triggers its demise by creating challenges that it is not equipped to handle.

Next, the organization must Recapture the Venture Spirit; that style was natural to the young and just-launched organization, but now it is locked away in the past.

the outlook, attitudes, values, self-images, and ways of thinking that were functional in the past have to "die" before people can be ready for life in the present.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

In fact, many endings represent the only way to protect the continuity of something bigger.

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

you enter a state of affairs in which neither the old ways nor the new ways work satisfactorily. People are caught between the demands of conflicting systems and end up immobilized