Quotes About Transformation

It might be harder than you imagined it to be -- it might take longer -- but you can change things, Marik. Your life is significant. As low as you are . . . there is only room to rise. But you have to let go.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!

what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world's way of thinking isn't sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual "atmosphere"?

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

The world is brimming with plaster replicas, and the point is to smash them to bits, to create an upheaval so acute it cannot be anticipated or resisted.

Before the Oregon Trail, America was a loosely coordinated land of emerging industrial centers in the Northeast, and a plantation South, with a frontier of hotly contested soil mutating west. Post–Oregon Trail—with a big assist from the Civil War—America was a continental dynamo connected by railroads and the telegraph from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with certain precedents for settlement, statehood, and quickly establishing large commercial cities.

Until you become different, you have not found yourself.

Every day a wilderness—noshade in sight. Beulahpatient among knickknacks,the solarium a rageof light, a grainstormas her gray cloth bringsdark wood to life.

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

PITHOS Climb into a jar and live for a while. Chill earth. No stars in this stone sky. You have ceased to ache. Your spine is a flower.

I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.

decline, downsizing, near death, desperation, bet the company, and revival that characterizes so many corporate histories (such as Nokia, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and many others).

wrenching change seldom characterizes strategic shifts at the outlier companies

I wanted to write this story for those children who witnessed and were part of necessary change. Yes. There were children.

Only love can turn the darkest storm into the brightest day.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.