Quotes About Transformation

It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change of heart first." "Well, then . . . how do I change their heart?" "You can't, Missy Caroline," he said gently. "Only Massa Jesus can change folks' hearts.

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.

You're feeling the flames, Ezra, but that's part of the process. This pot I just made won't be useful for anything until it goes through that fire." He pointed to the kiln, where waves of heat shimmered above it. "The pots baking in there right now would be useless if they didn't endure the heat.

If you want to change the future, start living as if you're already there.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

It is a mistake to think that the national revolution is only political and economic. It is above all cultural. We stand in the first stormy phase of revolution.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

The books he had read, the people he had met, and the ideas in which he had steeped himself for three years had transformed him.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

perhaps the boldest instance of a sudden change in almost every respect, whether of plan, elevation, or detail, which is known to architecture.

Catty had tattooed the crescent moon and star on Jimena's arm. Jimena also had two teardrops tattooed under her eye. Her other tattoos, remnants from her gang days, were hidden under her clothes. She, too, had a gift. She received premonitions about the future.

In retrospect, I see it more like this: the true God, in grace, set me free. Even in my desperation, I don't believe I would have had the courage to walk away from my childhood God unless the Spirit of a different God had whispered in my ear: I understand. I know your soul needs to be purged and healed from the wound of the false God. So, do it. Turn your back. Walk away. It'll be okay.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real.

Churchill almost single-handedly changed the mood of a nation. Shaking the British out of their lethargy, he imposed his "imagination and will upon his countrymen,

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

When he took charge of the Air Corps in 1938, it was in pitiful shape—a pale shadow of the mighty Luftwaffe or Britain's Royal Air Force. Arnold himself called his service "practically nonexistent." Ranked twentieth in size among the world's air forces and still under Army control, it had a few hundred combat planes, many of them obsolete, and fewer than nineteen thousand officers and enlisted men.

Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. Sometimes leaving holes big enough to see through, or even step through, to somewhere else.

Charlie had been doing something to the hedge; it was not exactly trimmed, but its disorder was now angular instead of bunchy.

Yet when we do manage to create ourselves anew, isn't there always a suspicion that the new identity fits over the old like a second skin, at times itchy or uncomfortably tight, not quite covering the most vulnerable patches?

Who do I need to be to fulfill on the commitment I've made? What kind of human being do I need to forge myself into to make this happen? What resources do I need to be willing to bring to bear in myself and my colleagues and in my world?

Money itself isn't the problem. Money itself isn't bad or good. Money itself doesn't have power or not have power. It is our interpretation of money, our interaction with it, where the real mischief is and where we find the real opportunity for self-discovery and personal transformation.

We can transform our fear and anxiety into commitment and action. That transformation is what interrupts and heals the fear, and it moves the dial on what is causing it.

she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...