Quotes About Transformation

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.