Quotes About Transformation

Only those who have been brave enough to ride their own monsters of anger and greed, jealousy and narcissism, fear and violence all the way down to the bottom will find a truer energy with which to lead.

God, gather me5 to be with you as you are with me. Keep me in touch with myself, with my needs, my anxieties, my angers, my pains, my corruptions, that I may claim them as my own rather than blame them on someone else. O Lord, deepen my wounds into wisdom; shape my weaknesses into compassion; gentle my envy into enjoyment, my fear into trust, my guilt into honesty. O God, gather me to be with you as you are with me.

Truly, the best thing any of us have to bring to leadership is our own transforming selves.

good. Over time, as we surrender ourselves to new life rhythms, they help us to surrender old behaviors, attitudes and practices so that we can be shaped by new ones.

Transformation is not about an emotion: it is about a commitment to a process of good will, and anyone can do it.

todas as grandes mudanças são precedidas de vigorosa reavaliação e reorganização intelectuais.

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That's what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.

The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture.

What has the third estate been until now? Nothing. What should it be? Everything. What does it aim to become? Something.

April splinters like an ice palace.

Every hour love's bones grow lighter.

In the Next Galaxy Things will be different. No one will lose their sight, their hearing, their gallbladder. It will be all Catskills with brand new wrap-around verandas. The idea of Hitler will not have vibrated yet. While back here, they are still cleaning out pockets of wrinkled Nazis hiding in Argentina. But in the next galaxy, certain planets will have true blue skies and drinking water.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

I've seen this city taking itself to heaven in pieces.

My life was a death sentence, but my death was where I began living life.

The day I realized I was too weak to defend justice is the day I realized I needed to become a warrior.

Anakin frowned. "I don't want things to change." "But you can't stop the change," Shmi said, "any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.

They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.