Quotes About Transformation

har anche sakht va ostovar ast dood mishavad va be hava miravad.

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and, at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.

Change your thoughts, change your world.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

Yes, but that's what grief often does: turns something impossible into something possible. Turns something unpreventable into the preventable.

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

Stepping back from the Dictator and the Wild Child and becoming the Watcher is like thinking you've been stuck on a railroad track, able to move only backward and forward, and discovering that you had the capacity to fly all along.

enlightenment always tastes of freedom.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

No longer can I bear with the ruined god, betrayed and beaten by his own magic. Calling on powers best left unsummoned, he took human beings apart—and then he put them back together again.

Odiaba las minas de carbón. El oro era noble e inerte. El carbón, que había sido materia viva, continuaba vivo, exhalando gas mientras se transformaba en roca.

homonormativity"—namely, the gay white middle-class focus on consumption and domesticity. The liberationists' goal is radical transformation, not liberal tinkering.

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.

Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a God can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of the God in the time of foundering for in the face of the God who is absent, we founder. Only a God can save us.

Es kann sein, daß wir eines Tages aus unserer Alltäglichkeit herausrücken und in die Macht der Dichtung einrücken müssen, daß wir nie mehr so in die Alltäglichkeit zurückkehren, wie wir sie verlassen haben.

Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.