Quotes About Transformation

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

Like Barley Bending" Like barley bending In low fields by the sea, Singing in hard wind Ceaselessly; Like barley bending And rising again, So would I, unbroken, Rise from pain; So would I softly, Day long, night long, Change my sorrow Into song.

When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and transformed.

The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, new ways of speaking and being in the world. We want our teens to make a decision consistent with the better story of which they are a part, a decision that doesn't even feel like a decision but a script they know by heart.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit ... must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

Together, we'll set the world on fire.

I can't recall consciously deciding to trick time, but that is what has happened. Somehow Martin and I, instead of being leashed for all eternity to what happened sixteen years ago, instead of that being the huge Before and After defining my life, have been set free.

After all, "the" human species is no more static than other species are. If our environment changes (or, more pertinent in the human case, as we transform our environment), we change with it.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.