Quotes About Transformation

That's all right, said the Scarecrow. You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when you put it on again.

No, my head is quite empty, answered the Woodman. But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

Was Ozma once a boy? asked Zeb, wonderingly. Yes; a wicked witch enchanted her, so she could not rule her kingdom. But she's a girl now, and the sweetest, loveliest girl in all the world.

I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form, said Woot; it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't like it. It makes me ashamed to be a beast of this sort when by right of birth I'm a boy; so I'm sure it would be wicked to ask anyone else to take my place. They

Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me. I should have been miserable if it hadn't been for that stange little dream-life of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don't know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you've always given me.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

I think part of the beauty of our relationship with jewelry is that it can change and evolve as we do ourselves.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.