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Quotes About Transformation

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
~ T. S. Eliot
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
~ Albert Finney
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.
~ Edgar Cayce
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
~ Vaclav Havel
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
~ Patrick Henry
I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
~ Lauryn Hill
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.
~ FM-2030
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
~ John Ortberg
Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
~ Tyler Perry
He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.
~ Steve Aylett
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.
~ Jonny Lang
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
~ Thomas Carlyle
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.
~ Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
~ Catherine DeVrye
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.
~ Paul A. Baran
Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be .......really nice.
~ Rick Riordan