Quotes About Transformation

Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won't change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

It's really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming.

Fiecare dintre noi trebuie s? avem curajul de a aduce la lumin? minciunile pe care ni le spunem nou? înÅŸine.

Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed.

Trying to discern what was different about them, she decided it was a new sense of life. They seemed to shimmer with it.

Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges.

The ad had been the pivotal point of her life. It had forced her to take an honest look at her existence. She couldn't bear to go on another day the way she had been. Pretending to be happy. Imagining so much that was never there and never would be unless she took action.

The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.

Let go in order to receive. This one came from Leanne, who felt it was important that we not get caught up in a quagmire of resentment and bitterness.

We drove through the Old Dominion University campus, where a small permanent lake has formed in the back corner of a huge parking lot. "You can't pave under water," he noted dryly, "so this obviously wasn't under water when this parking lot was paved.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again.

They were going to turn her into a boy.

Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an unnatural gloss. We spend the rest of our lives trying to remember why we ever loved so passionately and how we dreamed so simply, before life chiseled us down to the core.

I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable rut. The slow, steady strain on my legs became an excruciating amputation. My ankles pulled free from my feet. Bones snapped, cartilage tore, veins pulsed blood onto the soft brown clay of the yard.

Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like yoga or karma, it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?