Quotes About Transformation

I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with them without thinking. My heart is lightened so much that I am amazed at how sad I felt for so long.

Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating.

Look at her and Cat—and yes, Gabe, before he had turned into Darth

Well, I like him. There's a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?" She shrugged. "It's entirely up to him." "What do you mean?" He smiled quizzically at her. "Characters talk to you. Transform. Make choices," she replied. "Choices," he echoed. "Of who they become.

The pill" was first approved for prescription use in the United States in June 1960. By 1967, an estimated five million American women were taking the pills every month.4

A person who decides, voluntarily, as an adult, unconstrained by outside circumstances, to leave her native land and adopt a hitherto unfamiliar language and culture, has to face the fact that for the rest of her life she will be involved in theatre, imitation, make-believe.

So where's the real you? Huh? Let's say you decide to rip away the mask -- what kind of face will be revealed? The problem is that when a human face has spent a number of years beneath a mask, deprived of light and oxygen, it changes. Not only does it age, as all faces do, but it tends to get a bit pallid, flaccid, puffy...

Je voyage, je me cultive, me transforme ! Mon corps est façonné par une nourriture qui n'est pas la vôtre, mon cerveau s'imprègne de lectures qui ne sont pas les vôtres, je me fabrique, je m'éloigne de vous, et vous n'y pouvez rien. Restez en contact si vous le souhaitez mais sachez que, de toute manière, vous m'avez perdue. Chaque fois que vous me reverrez, je serai méconnaissable. Inconnaissable.

All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language. All of the above (Romain Gary).

On good days I felt like a chrysalis from which a butterfly had emerged, and on bad days I felt like a chewing-gum wrapper someone had thrown in the hedges.

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

Hechos 3:19, los "tiempos de refrigerio" vienen de "la presencia de Dios".

You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.

once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.

Honor the space between no longer and not yet.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

It's only through facing the truth that you will be able to fulfill your potential and live the life you were meant to live. It's only by jumping that you will be able to fly.

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty.

When something is "off" in your life, you know it. And it takes an incredible amount of energy to continue the denial—energy that could be used toward letting go of the old and inviting in the new. That

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

Change fear into fun. Change problems into projects. Go in and adjust the frequency and it will change the manifestation.

The only way Christ's Life can be shown forth is by first "putting off" our ungodly thoughts and emotions and then "putting on" the Mind of Christ.

Jesus is the only One who can expose and cleanse my sin and heal me from the inside out.