Quotes About Transformation

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

building, all tinted glass and natural lighting, was nothing like the cement tomb where

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

Tracy's mother had liked to say that when a person hit seventy, they aged in dog's years; the transformation was that much more pronounced.

something about the past. Let me move forward

grown a size larger, in Rowe's opinion. More than

face. "She had implants on her chin and her cheekbones. She's also had her nose altered." "Plastic surgery?" Tracy said. "Not the kind you're thinking of," Funk corrected. "This is facial structure alteration." "Someone trying to change their appearance," Tracy

Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.

Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.

Balthasar says anything beautiful first arrests you—you're stopped in your tracks by it. Then, Balthasar says, the beautiful elects you. You've been chosen. Not everyone who hears Dylan becomes a fan, but I got elected. Finally, he says, the beautiful always sends you. You're sent on a mission.

Reflective man produces new philosophies; it is only regenerate man who holds the clue to a society that is really new.

One cannot transform a world except as individuals in the world are transformed, and individuals cannot be changed except as they are molded in the hands of the Master.

Then he shrieked. In his hand the wooden shaft suddenly writhed. Its rigid outline became pliant, melting in his grasp. He tried to throw it from him, but it was too late. He held a living serpent in his naked hand, and already it had coiled about his wrist and its wicked wedge-shaped head darted at his muscular arm. He screamed again and his eyes became distended, his features purple. He went to his knees shaken by an awful convulsion, and then lay still.

These fiends can take any form they will. That is, they can, by a magic charm or the like, fling a web of sorcery about their faces, as an actor dons a mask, so that they resemble anyone they wish to.

Were we daring enough to take the "hero's journey" and become agents for the future? Or were our individual identities so dependent on our existing competencies and skills-and so entwined with the established structure-that change, deep or otherwise, was simply not an option?

Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Change has it's enemies.

In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle 'round a gleaming eye, Turning darkness all away, Even depths will know their day, For every shadow has its end, In light! Life will return again!

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.

The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.