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Quotes About Transformation

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
~ Plato
The great god Pan is dead.
~ Plutarch
The wildest colts make the best horses.
~ Plutarch
I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.
~ PO BRONSON
From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.
~ PO BRONSON
People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.
~ PO BRONSON
God's forgiven me. My wife's forgiven me. The department's forgiven me."
~ Police Chief Jerry Dyer
I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.
~ Polly Horvath
Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.
~ Polly Shulman
Because Buddhism presents a spiritual argument for the transformation (not the medication) of suffering, as well as specific and systematic methods of analyzing subjective distress, it now assists me in being able to address audiences about the principles and uses of analytic psychotherapy.
~ Polly Young-Eisendrath
The test of true virtue in a man surely resides in his capacity to bear with spirit and with dignity the most complete transformations of fortune
~ Polybius
Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.
~ Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
~ Pope Benedict XVI
we can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!
~ Poul Anderson
Give me leave, lord, and I will be the best of your hounds – but if a dog be driven out, he will become a wolf and feed on his master's flocks.
~ Poul Anderson
Dan doa-doa itu, apa artinya dia kalau bukan gerakan dari minus ke plus? Tahu kau apa artinya doa? Permohonan pada Tuhan, gerakan dari yang paling minus pada yang paling plus.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Mungkinkah seorang anak yang cengeng dalam perkembangannya barang dua puluh tahun kemudian bisa berubah jadi penentang dan pelawan? Bisa. Penderitaan tak tertanggungkan bisa mengakibatkan tiga macam sikap: menyerah tanpa syarat, melawan, atau membiarkan diri hancur. Mulyati memilih melawan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Letakkan cambukmu, raja, kau yang tak tahu bagaimana ilmu dan pengetahuan telah membuka babak baru di bumi manusia ini.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Revolusi ini tidak memberi sesuatu pun, dia minta kepada setiap orang, segala-galanya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
We are changing lives one at a time, change isn't coming, its happening.
~ President John Mahama
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.
~ Primo Levi
An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
~ Primo Levi
Revolutions begin in the best heads, and run steadily down to the populace.
~ Prince Klemens von Metternich
Nothing—nothing!—is too far gone that your God cannot resurrect it.
~ Priscilla Shirer