Quotes About Transformation

I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.

She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable.

I stared in disbelief at the little oasis of calm and beauty that had been created from my barren rooftop.

I managed to turn my anonymous little flat into something that felt, if not quite like a home, vaguely welcoming.

It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone. I felt like she was on the path to being someone I wasn't quite sure of. I felt, weirdly, as if I were being left behind.

There are so many versions of ourselves we can choose to be. Once, my life was destined to be measured out in the most ordinary of steps.

Life. Sometimes it can be really, really crap, and just as you think it's going to be like that for ever, it changes.

and I realized that even if she didn't know it yet, everything had changed for her. She wouldn't stay here now, no matter what happened with Will Traynor. She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons.

Alors voilà, nous y sommes. Tu es gravée dans mon coeur, Clark. Tu l'as été dès le premier jour où tu es arrivée avec tes fringues à la con, tes blagues moisies et ton incapacité absolue à dissimuler ce que tu ressens. Tu as changé ma vie infiniment plus que cet argent ne pourra changer la tienne.

I like progress but I hate change.

Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else. Thinking goes round and round. Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end where you start.

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?

But I do know that if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you'll keep on getting what you have been getting.

Jon and I talked several times on the phone about the state of the Falcons' organization and it became very clear that if I was going to turn this team around, the first step would be to focus on transforming the culture.

Nevers aren't forever!

if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts.

I am not mad here, but clear and calm. I am not transformed, but allowed to be wholly myself.I am isolated, but have never felt more connected to people. I am not imprisoned, but free. I am not cut off from my family and my roots, but am brought back to them. I am not living alone with dogs, but permitting my dogs to lead me somewhere I need to go, and it has been a great trip. We have more distance to travel together, I'm sure, before we are through.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

They were both so much older now. Their bodies had crumpled and softened and worn

a persistent unsettledness of wings.

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. And yet ever since the New Deal, liberals have been unable to shake this fundamental dogma that the state can be the instrument for a politics of meaning that transforms the entire nation into a village.