Quotes About Transformation

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

Speculation and constant judging will only limit what you see. Expand your sight by looking at everything in life as an opportunity to develop and transform yourself.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

Nothing's greater in life to see somebody who doesn't have start to value who they are and, as soon as they feel valued, they can change this world too.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.

On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.