Quotes About Transformation

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

Nuestras crucifixiones nos propinan golpes materiales, pero en las manos de Dios, el golpe puede convertirse en un don espiritual. No importa lo que ocurra en nuestras vidas, podemos aprovecharlas para mejorar.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

It's like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn't been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.

miracle is a shift in thinking, a shift from fear to love.

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

Cada reto es una oportunidad…para que se produzca un milagro.

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.

Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning. But my terror is that life itself is a ritual transforming everything into death.

I understood—I thought I understood—then things changed, or I learned the next thing that made everything I knew before obsolete.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn't so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

The joke seemed to be that once they were very young and now they were very old, and that they had been the same day after day and were somehow at the end of it all so utterly changed. In a calm, affectionate way they studied each other. Ames

Now we are more inclined to speak of information than of learning, and to think of the means by which information is transmitted rather than of how learning might transform, and be transformed by, the atmospheres of a given mind. We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought.

He was waiting to see what she would make of him, as they say. And then he would be what she made of him.

The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials.

I didn't feel very much at home in the world, that was a fact. Now I do.

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.