Quotes About Transformation

Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

All artists give birth. It's alchemy and it's really an amazing process.

We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light.

I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know

Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature remains.

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

The words strike like they never did before. Before words were flat. Now I hear them - understand in a new way.

Gilda was no longer fleeing for her life.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

You remind me of everything that followed.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

All of a sudden, when I take my hair down, I don't look like a flower child anymore. I look like Loretta Lynn. This is not a good look—for Loretta or me.

In 1880, clerks made up less than 5 percent of the nation's workforce, nearly all of them men; by 1910, more than four million Americans worked in offices, and half were women. By 1920, most Americans lived and worked in cities.

Before the revival began, a scant one in ten Americans were church members; by the time it ended, that ratio had risen to eight in ten.

In 1885, an American economist tried to reckon the extraordinary transformation wrought by what was now 200,000 miles of railroad, more than in all of Europe. It was possible to move one ton of freight one mile for less than seven-tenths of one cent, "a sum so small," he wrote, "that outside of China it would be difficult to find a coin of equivalent value to give a boy as a reward for carrying an ounce package across a street.

in 1916, only 16 percent of Americans lived in homes with electricity, but by 1927, that percentage had risen to 63.118

allowed themselves to reinhabit themselves

I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

There are so many of us out there, trying to turn Spyrograph flowers into rocket ships.