Quotes About Transformation

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." In other words, today's progressives have now become the sexists and racists they've claimed to hate.

I've reluctantly reached after years of watching my old "team" transform into a baying mob of hysterical puritans—a feral gang that sows division through identity politics and encourages societal tribes to rank themselves in a pecking order of "oppression.

desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

The process of purification is based on the idea that our essential nature is already pure, and enlightenment is the inborn condition of life.

the expectation of receiving a reward will transform the nature of the sacrifice.

And me? I'm a mess. I'm nothing and have nothing: make something of me. You can do it; you've got what it takes— but God, don't put it off. (Ps. 40:17)

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

He took, He blessed, He brake, and He gave. These four steps follow in progressive order in the lives of each of His disciples. He takes us into His arms when He saves us. He blesses us with the Holy Spirit. He breaks us at the cross. He gives us to others in ministry. We must experience the breaking of our self-life, however, before He can give us to His body as a ministry gift.

Actions are merely an indicator of a problem contained deeper in the heart and in the beliefs of a person. Individual racism cannot be changed through legislation but through personal transformation.

Imagine , they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you .

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently.

When one dies, the energy that is the life force within them does not cease to exist. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changed from one state to another. While we live, that energy is the power source of the body; at death, it is released and becomes the disembodied soul of who we were.

Bread feeds when broken open. Soil grows when broken open. You are not broken. You are the world's nourishment continually being broken open by design.

At times I feel my body has been transformed into a factory of infection, a vessel of virus. The wheels and cogs are constantly turning, manufacturing more toxins and poisons. My body is merely the host

Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Between the initial idea and the finished piece lies a gulf we can see across, but never fully chart. The truly special moments in artmaking lie in those moments when concept is converted to reality — those moments when the gulf is being crossed.

The truth is that the piece of art which seems so profoundly right in its finished state may earlier have been only inches or seconds away from total collapse.

We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the [reader to place words here] that changes when craft swells into art?

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.