Quotes About Transformation

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

Richard Paul Evans

That's what hate does – it remakes us in its image.

Richard Paul Evans

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

What a peculiar alchemist is time—transforming painful experiences into comedy.

I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That's what hate does—it remakes us in its image.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.

The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.