Quotes About Transformation

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome …

Harness your dragons. Turn them into stories.

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

She fell upward into brilliance, where all suffering was released.

Leadership is about movement and growth.

learned to live totally in the present and die to the past. Realizing

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to rebuild ourselves. Over time, over the course of many books, we construct a deeper, truer self.

We have a bad habit of presenting ourselves in a manner that seems to believe that righteousness is a change agent. It is not. Righteousness is the goal. Jesus is the only change agent.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the watersand drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt.Now you look down. The waters of childhood are there.

How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

rocket mass heater, a homemade furnace so efficient that you can hold your open palm over the chimney. There's no heat or smoke or pollution because everything gets burned. Whereas conventional furnaces gobble valuable resources like wood or gas, only to create waste in the form of smoke and escaped carbon, these devices transform waste into a valuable resource: heat.

It's easier to radicalize an institution than it is to radicalize yourself

Nothing will ever be the same.

stitched cowboy boots. He grew his hair out. He had his bangs cut straight,

Despite all the death he saw that morning, Pino knew something had changed in Milan overnight, some critical point had been reached and passed while he'd been partying and sleeping, because the streets near Porta Venezia were crowded and boisterous. Violins played. Accordions, too. People danced and hugged and laughed and cried. Pino felt as if the spirit of the party at the Hotel Diana had moved outside and seduced everyone celebrating the end of a long and terrible ordeal.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

just as we all know what it means to witness something being broken, we also know what it means to hope for restoration.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.