Quotes About Transformation

Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.

Yes, he answered silently. He wanted help. He wanted help being born over again and coming out right this time.

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead.... But I wasn't dead now...

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

The nature of life is change, but the nature of people is to resist change.

far better that [a patient make progress but] forget what we talked about than the opposite possibility (a more popular choice for patients)—to remember precisely what was talked about but to remain unchanged.

As the late psychotherapist Kohn Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it's one dame thing after another.

I once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too. We take the essence of the initial snapshot and the essence of an imagined snapshot and smash them together to create an entirely new one.

Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over.

Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Stage 1: Pre-contemplation Stage 2: Contemplation Stage 3: Preparation Stage 4: Action Stage 5: Maintenance

Insight is the booby prize of therapy" is my favorite maxim of the trade, meaning that you can have all the insight in the world, but if you don't change when you're out in the world, the insight—and the therapy—is worthless. Insight allows you to ask yourself, Is this something that's being done to me or am I doing it to myself? The answer gives you choices, but it's up to you to make them.

As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, "Before successful therapy, it's the same damn thing over and over. After

Our losses become the road maps for our future.

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

God is working on two fronts all the time. As He works to transform society, He works to transform the transformers!

Here's how it works. God transports us to a situation. There is no such thing as happenstance in the life of a child of God. His intent is to use fallible people to give out His infallible truth to a world living in error. He wants to use weak people who love and obey Him to transform the society to which they have been transported. Then, as we tell others, our own lives are changed in the process.

Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.

Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself.

But that was then. This was now. She was a different person these days.

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed; that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.