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Quotes About Transformation

To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called "gospel." You are properly called a "Christian" when it's obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world tries to impose on you, and that the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you.
~ William H. Willimon
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
~ William Hague
We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
We cannot read the same works forever. Our honey-moon, even though we wed the Muse, must come to an end; and it is followed by indifference, if not by disgust.
~ William Hazlitt
I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.
~ William Henry Seward
a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.
~ William Irwin
Jake Sully went from being a self-centered individual, only concerned with regaining the use of his legs, to being the defender of an entire world.
~ William Irwin
It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.
~ William Irwin Thompson
Or in the words of Tennyson: There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O, earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
~ William J. Miller
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
~ William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
~ William James
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
~ William James
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
~ William James
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
~ William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
~ William James
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds
~ William James
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
~ William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~ William James
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
~ William Jefferson Clinton
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
~ William Jones
I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.
~ William Joyce
In every sinner, Gertie, is the possibility of a saint.
~ William Kent Krueger
In every sinner is the possibility of a saint.
~ William Kent Krueger
To kill the Windigo, Meloux had said, you must become a Windigo, too. A man was never just a man. A man was endless possibility waiting to become.
~ William Kent Krueger