Quotes About Transformation

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.

If the time ever comes when there is no longer poverty in the world, there will be a wonderful freedom for the higher qualities of the human race.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

Indeed, this is one of the great evils of Welfarism—that it transforms the individual from a dignified, industrious, self-reliant spiritual being into a dependent animal creature without his knowing it. There is no avoiding this damage to character under the Welfare State.

Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life, you must change your vision of your life.

Love does not stand still, as everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story; they are always there, part of the meaning.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Within three hundred years Jesus went from being a Jewish apocalyptic prophet to being God himself, a member of the Trinity. Early Christianity is nothing if not remarkable.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Give it a positive meaning so you can get a positive result.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise.

Hey Jude, don't be afraid You were made to go out and get her The minute you let her under your skin Then you begin to make it better

I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same

We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.