Quotes About Transformation

I didn't pay attention and I was 99 kilos. I am tall, I am big. But 99 kilos, close to 100 kilos - that's too much. I felt like I was going boxing.

The first time the doctors put on my prosthetic legs they made me much taller than I'd ever been. I then remember the doctor saying 'we need to shorten this man' and we all were in hysterics.

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

Lucio Tan Group has had an historic interest in education. From my days as a struggling working student, I knew that education is the key to escape from the clutches of poverty.

Changing genders is not a quick process... it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Spiritual disciplines can do nothing. They can only get us to the place where something can be done.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The purpose of the Disciplines is freedom. Our aim is the freedom, not the Discipline. The moment we make the Discipline our central focus we will turn it into law and lose the corresponding freedom....Let us forever center on Christ and view the Spiritual Disciplines as a way of drawing us closer to His heart.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

Willpower will never succeed in dealing with the deeply ingrained habits of sin. Emmet

To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge." —Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words

Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11