Quotes About Transformation

Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.' So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day" (Joshua 5:9 NASB).

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

I'm not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king.

I used to be someone.

soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.

He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away. When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed. Or maybe we became something new. Maybe we made it exist.

Everything had changed between us the day she held my slingshot and I placed my arms around her. It frightened me, this change, the way it made me feel and even think differently, but every day since then, as I rode to the valley, all I could think of was holding her again, kissing her, listening to her, watching her laugh. Just

We were Rahtan, we could chisel what made us uncomfortable and awkward into an ice sculpture in hell if we had to.

I have two arms but not a bone, I can't be hurt with knife or stone. I have a head but lack a face, I don't need eyes to match your pace. I'm shifty, a thief, a trick of the eyes, My robes are made of mystery and lies. I am short, I am thin, I am monstrous and tall, But when midnight comes, I am nothing at all.

From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom.

Before that kindness, the color of his eyes hadn't mattered.

I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.

Knowing that soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and the after of my life.

Kazimyrah, I would sometimes whisper to myself as I slunk away with a meal hidden beneath my coat, because there were days even I forgot who I had once been.

She saw me as someone worth saving, in spite of my rags and past. She inspired me to be more than what others expected of me. I dared to believe I could make a difference because the queen had believed it first.

It was true that in a measure she could take them with her, but, robbed of their old environments, they would appear in such new guises that they would almost cease to be themselves.

It all came back. Yes, it came back. For the last two months it had ceased to be; it had been blotted out—hidden, forgotten; there had been no such thing. An enchanter's wand had been waved above that dreary square-built house in the dusty lane, and a fairy palace had arisen for her habitation; a fairy-land of beauty and splendour had spread itself around her, a paradise in which she wandered hand in hand with a demigod.

I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming . It's about what's happening inside us.