Quotes About Transformation

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother's milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

Our stumbling blocks are transformed into building blocks.

Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

I do what I want, when I feel like it ; now I'm not the same...

Chameleon on being crowned shamelessly said that he would jointly work with those animals, whom he used to say beast and rebuke earlier, for the peace and progress of the jungle.

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

Our duty would be to create, in the place of the outdated (Ottoman) Empire, a new national entity in harmony with its historic and linguistic unity and its desires.

Ben ÅŸuna inan?r?m; bir insan sürekli kitap okursa yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ okuduÄŸu kitaplar yüzüne iÅŸlenir, çirkinler bile yüzlerine iÅŸlenen kitapla güzelleÅŸir, sevimlileÅŸir.

Bad things do't happen to Bad people. Bad things happen to Good people to make yhem Great people.

I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me - never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I'm working with you and I sense you're feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That's how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don't do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness - that's something Mama showed me - the world becomes a little less cruel.

This wasn't the Lillie he'd left that night nine years ago. His Lillie was all fire and shooting rockets. His Lillie wasn't like any woman he'd ever known. His Lillie… wasn't his anymore.

Step 1: Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

As I accumulated dozens of new habits—mostly tiny ones—they combined to create a transformation. Sustaining all this did not feel hard. Pursuing change in this way felt natural and oddly fun.

Shifting identity helps you consider other new habits you might not have thought of doing that will move you closer to your aspiration.

Dust might cover the gem to render it lustreless but sooner or later it must fetch its intrinsic value. Reality can't be hoodwinked by any trick for long.]

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

Religions tell us to get rid of these emotions, but we cannot. They are human emotions that we will feel whether we want to or not. Suppression does not work. George Stevenson invented the steam engine because he noticed that the steam in a boiling kettle lifted the lid. The force was irresistible. yoga is about channeling and transforming that energy to higher purposes, just as Stevenson used the energy of steam to drive locomotives.