Quotes About Transformation

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Las personas son tan felices como transforman sus mentes para serlo (Abraham Lincoln)

The trouble with mental catch is that the ball you throw changes in midair into another.

The sign at Starbucks should read "Friends are like snowflakes: more different and beautiful each time you cross their path in our common descent." For the final truth about snowflakes is that they become more individual as they fall; that, buffeted by wind and time, they are translated, as if by magic, into every stranger and more complex patterns, until at las they touch earth. Then, like us, they melt.

For what was slavery in the American South, after all, but a system for transforming the labor of black bodies, via cotton plantations, into cloth?

Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country's history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by drop. Russia's continuing troubles show how long and hard a task this is.

but also thought of everything, invented everything and changed everything.

By the time we stopped for the night, Billy Milsap was as big as an ocean liner.

Your body is a blade sharpened by tears

The weakest saint can experience the power of the Deity of the Son of God if once he is willing to 'let go.' Any strand of our energy will blur the life of Jesus. We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus." —OSWALD CHAMBERS THE

All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always wanted to be!

Will I?" "Grief is never as bad as it is when you first feel it. The trick is to walk with it. Make it a part of who you are. Don't rail against it.

She learned that time could not be the measurement for the things that lasted. Sometimes what endured was that which changed us in a matter of moments, not years.

When you find your purpose in life, it changes you. You see things differently. More clearly. You love more and better. You solve problems and are able to help others solve theirs because you stand in strength.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful...

Time brings all things to pass.

Time refines all things that age with time.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

The Raven And The Swan A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

The Lion was so much in love that he had his claws trimmed and his big teeth taken out for her.

Then why let anything remain when whatever we loved turned instantly to stone?