Quotes About Transformation

Shanghai is a bastard son of a city, an offspring nobody wants until it has something worth taking.

it is likewise hard to imagine an early farmer announcing to his neighbours: 'I just want to warn you that, as from the next full moon, I intend to assume the powers of leader, and transform our cosy little segmentary society into a modern, thrusting chiefdom at the cutting edge of progress.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

the compassionate mind is the mind that transforms.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

our Yoga practice should be alive and adaptable to our needs as we go through the seasons of our lives.

By introducing non-Euclidean geometry to theoretical physics, Einstein would transform the field in extraordinary ways. The twelve-year-old clutching the geometry book would have no ways of knowing that his very hands would someday rewrite physical laws in a way that made the book obsolete.

People Like Us Taking Over

The day before yesterday we were atoms in the heart of a burning star - yesterday we were dust in a collapsing proto-star - today we are living humans - tomorrow we may be soil, beetles, grass, trees, birds.

You can never really know that Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

You can never really know the Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

In China, the greatest miracles we see are not the healings or other things, but lives transformed by the gospel. We believe we're not called to follow signs and wonders but instead the signs and wonders follow us when the gospel is preached. We don't keep our eyes on the signs and wonders; we keep our eyes on Jesus.

I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:24–25.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.

se había transformado en algo que era más, y a la vez, menos que humano

It must be terrible to be old, when you love someone who died young. They never change in your mind, and every day you see yourself grow away from that person you were when you loved and knew them. Until you are more of a shadow than they are, and the girl you were is altogether gone, more dead even than that young man on the battlefield.

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Becoming is superior to being.

That is Veronika Selig. A year ago she went with Roman Maria, into life. She stayed there a long time — in between, her eyes became darker. But now she is here, again. —

A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.