Quotes About Transformation

You can tell them," Bill said. "They get this sort of fat married look. They're done for.

Siempre le había gustado aquella hora del día, y ahora sentía como si él mismo fuese una parte del amanecer, como si fuese una porción de esa luz gris, de ese lento aclarar que precede a la salida del sol, cuando los objetos sólidos se oscurecen, el espacio se ilumina, las luces de la noche se hacen amarillas y se esfuman a medida que avanza el día.

He wants to stay in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

Al acercarse a los cuarenta años, Ernest Hemingway se había transformado en una peculiar figura

You father was a great man. -But I don't know. It looks to me like, when they turn some man, than there's nothing left of him.

You corrupt very easily, he thought. But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with?

Go and be fish again.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we—each one of us, individually—decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be.

It came from a piece of old wood that he found in the yard somewhere. That's what we all are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we--each one of us, individually--decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be. --Grant

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

a journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Bet, kad aukstie lieti l?st bez mitas un nogalina pavasari, š?iet, ka velt?gi aizg?jusi boj? jaun? dz?v?ba.

Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.

Im Schlaf Er traf einen Baum. Er baute darunter sein Haus. Er schnitt aus dem Baum einen Stock heraus. Der Stock wurde seine Lanze. Die Lanze wurde sein Gewehr. Das Gewehr wurde seine Kanone. Die Kanone wurde seine Bombe. Die Bombe traf sein Haus und riß den Baum an dem Wurzeln aus. Er stand dabei und staunte, aber auf wachte er nicht.

A range of different types of consciousness is available to human beings. It's a kind of anomaly that postmodern Western culture has narrowed the range of that what we are encouraged to have. Maybe it's not so much a transformation we are speaking of, but an opening. It's a reclaiming.32

Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.

Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?

It is no small thing that Paul says that only with this new mind can you become a new you. So often the will of God is described as something to be received rather than something that must be perceived. Paul tells us that when our minds are renewed, it is then and only then that we are able to test and approve what the will of God is. When we see the world from this new mind, we will see that God's intention for us is good and pleasing and perfect.

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.

You can choose to establish a monument for prayer or pray to unleash a movement. One is religious; the other revolutionary. In

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.