Transformation quotes

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Things do not change; we change.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I was a thug.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Revolutions go not backward.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

I love to watch times change!

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.