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Quotes About Transformation

When you are finished changing, you're finished.
~ Benjamin Franklin
THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms; Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new, and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR
~ Benjamin Franklin
The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the cover of an old book (it's contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and guilding), lies here, food for worms But the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new and more perfect edition, corrected and amended, by the Author.
~ Benjamin Franklin
with an alteration in the mode of assessment, which I thought not for
~ Benjamin Franklin
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst man good throughout.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?
~ Benjamin Harrison
In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.
~ Benjamin Hoff
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
~ Benjamin Hoff
It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, "He...changed human beings by regarding them not as what they thought they were but as though they were what they wished to be, and as though the good in them was all of them
~ Benjamin Hoff
In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a Swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water?
~ Benjamin Hoff
As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Belki de as?l "iyi" ÅŸeyler s?navlard?r, belki zorluklar ve "kötü" ÅŸeyler büyümemiz için hediyelerdir: problemler çözülmem için, kötü durumlar kaç?n?lmak için, al??kanl?klar deÄŸiÅŸmek, baz? durumlar kabul etmek, dersler öÄŸrenilmek, ÅŸeyler dönüÅŸmek, f?rsatlar Bilgelik-Mutluluk ve Hakikati bulmak içindir.
~ Benjamin Hoff
I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any longer. My whole genetic makeup had somehow been altered by him and I was a brand new person, one that was completely foreign to me.
~ Benjamin Jones
How could it be possible that one look from him cold turn me from a strong independent woman to a shy little girl? He was the living embodiment of romance, the hero in my own little fairy tale world.
~ Benjamin Jones
I knew, suddenly, that I was someone else, with more elements. It surprised me that the touching of hands could do that: reveal to you a new piece of who you were.
~ Benjamin Nugent
Transformation is forbidden.
~ Benjamin Percy
Lycans are human.
~ Benjamin Percy
Meditations on Christ will help us deepen the connection to His qualities and make them our own.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
Our meditation practice, as Christians, is dedicated to three main priorities: welcoming the Holy Spirit, living a more Christlike life, and building His kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
~ benjamin walter ii
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.
~ benjamin walter iii
It's hard to explain. Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before" -Sam
~ Bennett Madison
Give up the old so God can perform the new in your life.
~ Benny Hinn