Quotes About Transformation

I wondered if there was any of that boy left in me, or had the cancer, indeed, eaten him all away?

But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.

Looking back, all he could see was a swirling pillar of ash and bones behind him. But ahead, there was someone standing on the surface of the water! Suddenly, a strong hand plunged through the watery roiling veil and held his arm fast. It jerked, and Dietrich shuddered. The hand lifted him straight up--into the warmth, into the light. "This is the end--for me the beginning of life.

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]!

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Over everything—up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks—was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city's bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of the plants intact; it had stimulated them.

she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Life is a renovation project.

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perhaps because of the way he dressed, I thought of a goth girl named Rachel who had really transformed herself by playing Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)

In order to cope with anxiousness, for instance, you need to let certain well-worn paths grow over while you blaze alternate trails.

The way you choose to cope with stress can change not only how you feel, but also how it transforms the brain. If you react passively or if there is simply no way out, stress can become damaging.

Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.

After the Wall

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.