Quotes About Transformation

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Unlike some who claim that a line in the sand was forever crossed on a particular date in time, no such final event has happened in Joan's story. And, in fact, true enlightenment is not concerned at all with "me" being enlightened.

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But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

you have to remember that even the humble lizard uses camouflage to save his skin. The little anole can change his color when necessary.

To be another person than the one you were before means more than I understand. But

Cultural shifts happen on a different level; they come into view only when we step back enough to see a bigger picture changing over time. A newspaper photograph viewed through a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our lives and choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of change.

In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.

What I learned late in life, under my rain of lava, under my kill-or-cure, unhappily, slowly, stubbornly, barely, and in really dreadful pain, was that there is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

Take my struggles and use them for your glory. But whatever you do, please don't leave me the same.

Someone has said that Jesus went from place of prayer to place of prayer and did miracles in between.

You didn't hurt me, babe," he said. "You marked me. Big difference. That night was the most important thing that's ever happened in my life. Holding you, catching Noah—it changed me forever. I didn't want to forget. So when the bruises started to fade, I went and got them inked, so I couldn't.

Wow, if Portlanders could do that to a biker, they could turn anyone into a hipster.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

things have to break down for the new thing to come in.

He often expressed his amazement...at the power of theatre to transfigure a play, and inject it with significances he could never have imagined without it: yet for all that, he did not change custom or become a theatregoer, and this...was a part of the price he had to pay for a habit of Protestantism.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair

I'm not myself.' '...You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.

Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief becomes you; it wraps you up and changes you and makes everything - every little thing - different than it was before.