Quotes About Transformation

specifically The Seven Storey Mountain and No Man Is An Island that led me to where I am today and helped me become the person I was meant to be.

He sat the silver disk between Poocher's shoulder blades. The pig turned around in a circle, as if he were trying to see the disk on his back, which his fat neck wouldn't allow. After his third revolution, he closed his eyes and scrunched up his snout. His wings unfolded. He floated off the ground, looking smug. Everyone in the room knew there was something that needed to be said. But not even Hex, who'd never shown any fear of an obvious joke, dared say it.

Our moods,' she asked. 'Are they perhaps something like thrusts—rhapsodic ones—toward stasis: self-finale?

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

contrast, as a result of that study, blessed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we will begin to take on something of the glorious luster of the Lord Jesus Christ and will become increasingly like him. That

Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

Our social existence has, therefore, an inescapably fluid character. This is not to say that we live in a fluid context, but that our lives are themselves fluid. As in the Zen image we are not the stones over which the stream of the world flows; we are the stream itself.

Who lives horizonally is never somewhere, but always in passage.

It is not a matter of exposing one's unchanging identity, the true self that has always been, but a way of exposing one's ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be.

True conversions consist in the choice of a new audience, that is, of a new world. All that was once familiar is now seen in startlingly new ways.

Solo ciò che cambia può continuare.

Infinite lovers conform to the sexual expectations of others in a way that does not expose something hidden, but unveils something in plain sight: that sexual engagement is a poiesis of free persons. In this exposure they emerge as the persons they are. They meet others with their limitations, and not within their limitations. In doing so they expect to be transformed-and are transformed.

It is in the garden that we discover what travel truly is. We do not journey to a garden but by way of it.

When I came back out five minutes later, even my pet parakeet wouldn't have recognized me. Of course, I didn't have a pet parakeet. But never mind that.

One fine day you've got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles.

Kady!' ... 'Jake!' riep ze. Toen rolde de golf over haar heen en veranderde haar in steen.

The Great Stagnation

Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.

My soul is not a palace of the past...