Quotes About Transformation

I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

Now Sunny, don't get mad, but …" Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. "But WHAT, Rayne?" "I, uh, think you've accidentally been turned into a vampire.

Turning into a vampire is bad enough – I don't need to flunk out of school on top of it.

Le sue parole avevano una sonorità lontana come se prendessero la loro ragione da un passato che si faceva futuro abolendo il presente.

Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?

If it is made with love, the imperfect becomes perfect.

The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it.

The thing about personal growth, I've discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma.

You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.

But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were, were moths in embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery sound – but at least they were honest; they were brown, they were dull, they were stupid (flying into flames at the drop of a hat). All in all, they hadn't much going for them but they didn't pretend to be anything other than what they were.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Well, Gascon, I'm going to miss your long blue hair. How on earth will I find you in a crowd now?

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

It's like one big lending library out there. A piece of what was once a star or something, a flower or a willow tree, when it is finished bein' that might be loaned away an' become a fish or a person's fingernail or evaporate into the sky and be a rainbow. That the—what did he call 'em?—stuff that makes your atoms up an' mine, that stuff mixed up a little different is the sum of all the stuff that's in existence.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path.

Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.