Quotes About Transformation

Speak not of what you know until you become that of which you speak, for a witch is what you are rather than something you do.

Os meus olhos deviam ter a mesma expressão nos últimos anos, mas nunca notei. Bem que me olhava no espelho para ver que cara a pessoa tem quando sofre muito, mas era sempre o meu rosto. Cada vez mais achava que devia ter mudado muito, não se podia ser a mesma depois de tanta coisa, de tanta dor. Contudo, era eu.

Mas é necessário cortar com o que ele eventualmente tem de sufocante: pois pode ser também jaula, voragem, fundo de poço. Se ficarmos demais presos, teremos de nos puxar pelos próprios cabelos para outro espaço onde mesmo com susto e incertezas a gente possa respirar e decidir o que fazer agora.

Muito do que nos legaram pode ser re-programado: somos fruto mas não escravos, o olhar primordial que nos saudou não é necessariamente uma sentença de morte.

Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names– though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them.

Improving ourselves is not the sacrifice the Lord calls us to.

God isn't interested in helping us with our self-improvement program; he is interested in our holiness.

But at the time I had that strange confidence, born of watching a good movie, that I could be something different from what I was...

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become 'better organized.

I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.

Ce que j'aimais sans mesure chez ces sept femmes (lesquelles ayant pris le risque de vivre sans prudence ne purent éviter celui d'en souffrir) c'était leur puissance poétique, c'était la grâce de leur écriture, c'était le retournement qu'elles opéraient sur les forces de mort et leur pouvoir de conjuguer l'oeuvre avec l'existence, c'était le bouleversement qu'elles provoquaient en moi et le surcroît de vie qu'elles ne cessaient depuis longtemps de m'insuffler.

E vendo que a libélula enveredava por entre os juncos, ficou pensando que mais importante do que nascer é ressuscitar.

Via agora que jamais poderia se libertar das suas antigas faces, impossível negá-las porque tinha qualquer coisa de comum que permanecia no fundo de cada uma delas, qualquer coisa que era como uma misteriosa unidade ligando umas às outras, sucessivamente, até chegar à face atual.

Um dia qualquer, no meio de um pensamento, de uma palavra, você descobrirá de repente esta coisa extraordinária: cresci! O que não vai impedir que o caso ou Deus, dê a isto o nome que quiser, de vez em quando a governe como uma casca de noz no meio do mar. Mas reagirá de modo diferente, está compreendendo?

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

The power that is to redeem him must be a power working within, not without.

This is what Jesus Christ came to do. Not to show how we can escape hell and get into heaven, but to show how we can escape from ourselves and become other selves; to show how we may cease to be what we are and become what we desire to be. He came that he might teach us and empower us to be the men we want to be, the men we ought to be.

We must look for God in Christ not only by reading about Christ, but by endeavoring to be like him. It is only by participation in his life that we can come to an acquaintance with him.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

transformation does not occur in isolation, nor does it typically occur within the same group of friends.

Those that came before you did not have to think so consciously about actively navigating their lives through so many distinct changes, or indeed developing their capacity for transition. Long

The Gotha sermon takes us closer than any other testimony to the religious despair and overwhelming sinfulness that Luther felt as a monk. And it was at this point that he had begun to study Paul's Letter to the Romans, an intellectual and devotional exercise that would transform his spirituality.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.