Quotes About Transformation

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future

I became an ethereal sky, wrenched and stretched to dry.

The self we wear must be discarded once a while to emerge anew, "Tyaag" to let go "Daya" compassion and "Shanti" must be adorned in the abode of thy heart, only then we shall become true warriors of peace, the lion of Durga and the music of Saraswati.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation, by the late rabbi Alan Lew,

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.