Quotes About Transformation

Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

Once it's all done, I fancy I'll come back as an owl. Free and alone in the quiet of the night.

I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.

The secret to practicing resurrection is in giving away who we are and what we have—completely and wholly—to something greater than ourselves. It's in escaping from the circumstances and choices that entomb us and entering into new life here and now.

Mr. Nath and I talked further about the pilgrimage. Examining his hand he said, 'I wonder what it will look like after I finish this pilgrimage.' What do you mean?' I asked. 'Do you expect this pilgrimage to change your hand?' It must,' he replied. 'This pilgrimage changes one's life. The change must be evident in the lines of one's hands.

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.

el mal no desaparece, tan sólo se transforma adoptando otras formas de vida.

This isn't the end of the story. Maybe it's the end of a part of the story, but not the whole of it.

What does it take to turn the hero into a villain?

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

Leave the past alone, it cannot be reshaped. The future alone is ours. It starts fresh and clean from this very minute.

O mundo mudou, o senhor sabe. Ou mudamos com ele e prosperamos ou agitamos os punhos para o céu. Prefiro a primeira escolha. E quanto ao senhor, Weaver? O que prefere?

Good Gad, Weaver. That look upon your face is one of inspiration. I hardly know you any longer.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Early Muslim references to dehumanization were overtly ethnocentric. Almost without exception, the people who are transformed into subhuman creatures—specifically, pigs, apes, and rats—are Jews.

Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.

That explains it. The zap should have faded by evening, but the freeze made it permanent." "Permanent?

Just one touch will change your life for all eternity.

I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

So many things were new. Everything changed. The past would not hold and could not be held.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!