Quotes About Transformation

Whatever the flavor of our anger – irritability, rage, stubbornness, belligerence, or sullen silence – it can all be transformed into compassion and understanding. Those we live with will certainly benefit from that, and so will we.

Windmills put the wind to work. Similarly, you can set up an anger mill, which will put your an- ger to work, drawing the living waters of compas- sion and creativity from the depths of your heart to help all those around you.

All that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy.

Identity, he believed, wad fluid not fixed.

After the sparkle fades you have to deal with what's left - whether you like what you see or not

Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay Gorce)

We can only bring about change in our lives when we clearly see two truths: that the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of fighting our toughest battles, and that by taking the biggest risks, we gain the most valuable rewards.

Part of maturing into wisdom is transferring more and more of your sense of security from the tangible to the intangible containers.

definitely been shellacking the goldfish bowl.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Nothing is permanent but change.

Nous devenons pareils à l'idéal que nous portons en notre cœur.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

It kept humping up in the middle. Right now it looked more like a giant's skullcap

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.

That year it seemed to me that I expanded like pizza dough.

It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.