Quotes About Transformation

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won't be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively , more unexpectedly. Christ will become That Man who changes people, someone who jumps off a bumper sticker and mediocre praise songs and into lives.

Varje natt på Klara Norra tillbads han och offrades, hans kropp styckades och åts, och nästa morgon återföddes han hel och levde igen.

Kartais aš jau?iuos kaip šuva. Aš prisirišu prie kiekvienos vietos, kurioje aš pasilieku ilgiau negu vien? dien?. Numeskit, sakau, mane dykiausioj dykumoje, palikit mane joje. Gr?ž? po keli? dien? j?s rasite mane jau ?leidus? ? j? šaknis, ? pat? jos vidur?.

Menas žmones ?skiepina. Jis juos pakei?ia, meno skiepais, iš šunobelies ? obel?.

Fixation on the 'first' in any form or content is often less instructive then a general sense of its 'trended change' – which is to say as part of an overall transformation of practices and conditions, generally in answer to shifts in technology or market perceptions.

Their hearts shall be full of love. That which was in the heart on earth as but a grain of mustard-seed, shall be as a great tree in heaven. The soul that in this world had only a little spark of divine love in it, in heaven shall be, as it were, turned into a bright and ardent flame, like the sun in its fullest brightness, when it has no spot upon it.

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

What is it about legs? Or what is it about breasts? Or the small of the back? What is it about anything? One day there will be no difference between anything. It'll all be the exact same thing. One day you'll look in the dictionary and there will be only one word and you'll just have to make do.

singing in choruses, performing in marching bands, listening to sermons, attending political rallies, and meditating. Most of my students have experienced the switch at least once, although only a few had a life-changing experience. More commonly, the effects fade away within a few hours or days.

we face the paradox of abundance: Quantity undermines the quality of our engagement. With such a vast and wonderful library spread out before us, we often skim books or read just the reviews. We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we savored it, taken it to heart, and worked it into our lives.

Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind.

If genetic evolution was able to fine-tune our bones, teeth, skin, and metabolism in just a few thousand years as our diets and climates changed, how could genetic evolution not have tinkered with our brains and behaviors as our social environments underwent the most radical transformation in primate history?

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer, author (b. 1940)

You come face to face with love, and before the sun sets, you've become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better. It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly... And she don't ever need to touch the ground. Love sends a man half way around the world... Just for the hope of catching it.

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be... It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground.

newfound power leads to new perspective

While you slept, the world changed

Ignore how things are. Ignore how they seem. Make the world better.

I am now me more than I ever was. (A Christmas Outing)

But revolutions don't happen because of one or two individuals; they happen because the majority wakes up and realizes that things must change.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.