Transformation Quotes

Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

~ Anthony Kiedis

As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.

~ Cynthia Bourgeault

He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

~ C.s. Lewis

She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood and know this meant something. She longed for some transformation more lasting than that wrought by the law and his name, some visceral change he might effect in her so that anyone on the street with one glance would know she was his.

~ Meredith Duran

The day we mean what we say, even a “good morning” can be transformational!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

~ Robin Mckinley

The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to its basic structures.

~ Walter Wink

He was attracted to this edge of unknowing, of hope and fear, he instinctively knew that surfing it was precondition for growth and transformation. And for feeling alive. Waking up and going out into the world not knowing what each day would hold, taking life as it comes, relinquishing any illusion of control. That's fresh, that's a good morning!

~ Matt Padwick

The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

...reflection can transform something familiar.

~ Diane L. Dunton

I believe those of us who have gone through serious hardships become, in some cosmic way, related. We form a tribe of battle veterans and fellow pilgrims suffused with knowledge none of us wanted. And although the admission to the club is unexpected and painful, the people you meet once you are there and the person you become will be with you forever

~ Susan Mecca

My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.

~ Rev. Lorna Lorraine Wilson

Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

~ D H Lawwrence

SpringThe season between winter and summer, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe months March, April and May.The ability of something to return to its original shape when it is pressed down, stretched or twisted.

~ Cecelia Ahern

SummerThe seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.

~ Cecelia Ahern

SummerThe seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.― Cecilia Ahern

~ Cecilia Ahern

AutumnThe season between summer and winter, comprising in the Northern Hemisphereusually the months of September, October and November.A period of maturity.

~ Cecelia Ahern

She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.

~ Katarina Bivald

WinterThe season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere the coldest months of the year: December, January and February.A period of inactivity or decay.

~ Cecelia Ahern

The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

~ Girdhar Joshi

There are women’s voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change. I believe that all these legends about people changing into animals at night – like the stories of the werewolf, for instance – were invented by men who saw women transformed at night – from idealized, worshipful creatures into animals and thought that they were possessed.

~ Anaïs Nin

Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life.

~ Sarah Bessey

Successful people aren’t born that way. They usually work very hard, and that means constant effort – even if it’s not hard, it is steady. People born to wealth need to work to keep it. A radical shift means a thousand small changes, a few a day. Eventually you wake up……and you’re the person you wanted to be.

~ Rohvannyn Shaw

Vehicles are one of the best modes of transportation. Relationships are one of the best vehicles of transformation.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Cairo is in a state of becoming… We just don't know what it's becoming yet.

~ Daniel Joseph Monti

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

~ Jeremy Griffith

To transform yourself, you don't need to do big things. Just do small things in big way. Transformation will follow you!

~ Rahul Sinha

…but death can’t be the final word, can it? I mean, look at this fire. The wood that we threw on it has been decimated, or so it seems, but in reality, the wood has been transformed into gasses and ashes. I think about that, you know, about how nothing is ever destroyed, but only changes form.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

~ Frederick Espiritu

And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.

~ Stacie Hammond

Finally, this book has the potential to radically alter your understanding of who you really are—your high calling as one of the “sons of God.

~ David C. Alves

One day, you would see,You have dropped your attire,The dirt you are carrying on your shoulderAnd your entire self!

~ Sayantan Sen

You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight in ours. On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more “male,” mine, more and more “female.” But that’s not how it felt on the inside. On the inside, we were two human animals undergoing transformations beside each other, bearing each other loose witness. In other words, we were aging.

~ Maggie Nelson

Whether your transformation happens through trauma, surprise, or intention, the process begins because of a growing need for change.

~ Suzy Ross

Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)

~ Sung Yee Poon

The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, What can I do in this situation?

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself!

~ Camilla Dorand

For the first time I was beginning to discern a God whom I actually wanted to live for. I was beginning to discover the motivation of Paul when he proclaimed, “Christ’s love compels us” (2 Cor. 5: 14). All my life I’d tried to be good to avoid hell, or the ugly-stick flogging, or my stepmother’s beatings with a two-by-four. But while most people would undoubtedly be better at behaving well with these frightful motivations than I ever was, no one could ever be transformed by these sorts of motivations. Threatening motivations address behavior, but they can never transform our identity. They motivate people to change as a means of protecting themselves, but for this reason they can never move us beyond ourselves to become someone fundamentally different from who we currently are. And threatening motivations can certainly never transform us into people with an other-oriented, self-sacrificial, loving character. Only a motivation that is anchored in love can do this.

~ Gregory A. Boyd

If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation.

~ Sunday Adelaja