Quotes About Transformation

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.