Top 100 Quotes About Transformation
#1. Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
Elif Shafak
#2. Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.
Jack Kornfield
#3. Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.
Amit Ray
#4. Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#5. When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo
Bell Hooks
#6. I have found essences to be among the most valuable tools that I have utilized for awakening and allowing transformation.
Marcey Shapiro
#7. It's more common for people to get fire tattoos. Symbols of passion, transformation, change. But I wanted smoke because it's what remains. After the fire, after everything is destroyed, you're left with smoke and ash. You've gotta make somethin' out of it.
Kate Meader
#8. Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind
C.R. Strahan
#9. Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.
Cornelius Castoriadis
#10. Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth
#11. Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'
Richard Rohr
#13. Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Herbert Spencer
#14. Faith is having a path that leads you to freedom, liberation, and the transformation of afflictions.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#15. We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
Jonathan Sacks
#16. In her inward reality she was a vehicle of transformation, travelling through the mists of illusion towards the elusive, ever-receding landfall that was Truth.
Amitav Ghosh
#17. The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.
Jonathan Franzen
#18. There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
Marianne Williamson
#19. Development requires modification and transformation of the environment ... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.
Malcolm Fraser
#20. The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
Audre Lorde
#21. The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Lewis H. Lapham
#22. The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
Lee Hall
#23. The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.
Jeffrey Toobin
#24. Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.
David Adjaye
#25. The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.
Hilaire Belloc
#26. Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.
John R.W. Stott
#27. Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
Carlos Santana
#28. Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
Deepak Chopra
#29. It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe
Leo Tolstoy
#30. And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Archie Shepp
#31. The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
Lewis Mumford
#32. I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
Zooey Deschanel
#33. In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
Shalom Harlow
#34. Mutual transformation is rare, as good things are. In my view, a person should live as they wish until they find someone they want to be faithful to. After all, as you say, one can't suck oneself off.
Hanif Kureishi
#35. And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.
Marya Hornbacher
#36. The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
Gustav Landauer
#37. The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.
Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
#38. Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation.
Aspen Matis
#39. Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.
Tama J. Kieves
#40. Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
Paul Valery
#41. Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.
Eve Curie
#42. One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.
Nhat Hanh
#43. The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
Susan George
#44. Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
Peter Shepherd
#45. What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!
Terence McKenna
#46. I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not
James Patterson
#47. Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.
Lisa Cach
#48. Any teaching that doesn't direct itself to the transformation of your mind, that is as you associate yourself, ultimately is going to be meaningless.
Master Teacher
#49. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)
Donald Rothberg
#50. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain.
Rumi
#52. Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
#53. 'Better Call Saul' happens in the same universe as 'Breaking Bad,' and we have the same writers and mostly the same crew. Like 'Breaking Bad,' it is a transformation story, and Bob Odenkirk brings his own distinctive flavour.
Michael Mando
#54. I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.
Lebbeus Woods
#56. A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
Alan W. Watts
#57. The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.
Billy Graham
#58. With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.
Christopher Hitchens
#59. I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.
Jehane Noujaim
#60. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure.
Richard Rohr
#61. The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation ... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.
Eternity ended ten years ago.
Brandon Sanderson
#62. A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
#63. Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.
Alan Watts
#64. Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously
Sulak Sivaraksa
#65. When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens
Stephen Covey
#66. When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.
Suze Orman
#67. Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
Malcolm McLaren
#68. Hearing the Word gives birth to faith, which in turn causes action that will bring about a change and transformation of our circumstances.
Sunday Adelaja
#69. That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.
Steve Erickson
#70. unless you learn to recognize the false as false - as not you - there can be no lasting transformation, and you would always end up being drawn back into illusion and into some form of pain.
Eckhart Tolle
#71. You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
Kerry Washington
#72. At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
Julia Cameron
#73. Transformation and deliverance are most definitely laborious!!!
Denise Sharp
#74. This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
David Platt
#75. Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.
Grace Hartigan
#76. Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
Marianne Williamson
#77. Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country's Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This walk would be my salvation. It had to be.
Aspen Matis
#78. My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.
Debbie Ford
#79. Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.
Sai Baba
#80. It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.
Betsy Lerner
#81. Almost by force of habit, successful people simply do more. As a result, they experience not only greater financial rewards for their extra efforts but also a personal transformation, becoming more self-confident, more self-reliant, and more influential with those around them.
Jack Canfield
#82. Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation.
Gia Combs-Ramirez
#83. Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.
Sophia Loren
#84. The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Lasting leadership comes from a personal transformation, not a personal agenda.
Barry Banther
#87. The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs.
Stanley Cavell
#88. September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
Nadine Gordimer
#89. I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year. When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year in order to help Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation.
Alfred Amoroso
#90. Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
David Wilcock
#91. He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation.
J.K. Rowling
#92. In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.
John Ortberg
#93. I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I sucked in a deep breath, held it, and marveled at my own transformation into a ridiculous ninny.
Tess Oliver
#94. I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me ... it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.
Shahzia Sikander
#95. Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.
Nathan Shedroff
#96. The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
Tullian Tchividjian
#97. It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.
Joanna Macy
#98. Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
James C. Collins
#99. Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.
Deepak Chopra
#100. The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.
Deborah Butterfield
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