Quotes About Transformation

Revolution? You're an idiot. You don't even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they've appeared on a T-shirt, they haven't changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim.

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

Whatever goes down, whatever turns up—make food and music and dance and story out of it.

I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, that need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

If you're suffering and in pain, ask the Lord to touch your life in a new and special way. Open your heart to the message of love freely given. By embracing the true meaning of the season, you'll find transformation and healing.

She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must marry the hangman or no one, but that is not so bad. Who else is there to marry?

I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.

Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.

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We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

We think there is *one* planet called Earth, but there are thousands, even *millions*, like a snake shedding its skin every so often, but with all the old skins still bunched around it. You live inside the creature for quite a while, so it comes as a shock to find you're living now in one of the husked-off skins, and sometimes you can touch and know about the creature as it is now and sometimes you can't.

It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell not going to undergo some total transformation at this point.