Quotes About Transformation

Dark night, bright future Like the phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

I'm back where I started, she marveled. But now everything's different.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.

She must move. Which is why we have made it deliberately uncomfortable, painful and traumatic for her.

You have to breathe through the heart. And once you're in that space – and it's a very big space – once you're in there, you're in a completely different space. You're in the space that can heal anything.

O Lord Jesus, with Thy most kind and merciful, and yet most powerful, hand, deign to form my heart so that it may be like Thine.

When the smith plunges the iron into the fire, he is not just trying to make it hot and glowing; he wants to make it malleable. So too, the only reason why mental prayer is to give light to my mind and warmth to my heart is to make my soul pliant so that it can be hammered into a new shape, so that the faults and form of the old man may be hammered out, and the form and virtues of Jesus Christ imparted to it.

Había dicho al principio que los hombres de la época de Funes tenían dos caras, dos existencias, una colonial, otra republicana.

Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?

There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

24 En verdad, en verdad les digo, que quien escucha mi palabra, y cree a aquel que me ha enviado, tiene la vida eterna, y no incurre en sentencia de condenación, sino que ha pasado ya de muerto a vida.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

I mean, nothing's really changed, but we've changed.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife across the threads that tied your keepsakes to the things they kept

forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

You must change your actions to change your results.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" THOMAS MERTON