Transformation Quotes

"The glorious sun, / Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, / Turning with splendor of his precious eye / The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold."

- William Shakespeare

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."

- Angela Davis

"And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person you walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

- Fulton J. Sheen

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

"The second-born person still sins, but is no longer a slave to sin. The Holy Spirit, in intimate, indwelling communion, liberates. The person is made alive to the things of God."

- R.C. Sproul

"Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel."

- Charles Spurgeon

"This new covenant work of Christ removes idols, users in the Holy Spirit, transforms the inner being, and writes the law of God upon the heart (Heb. 8:7-12), so the death destined sinner becomes a new creation with a new destiny."

- Edward P. Meadors

"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."

- Aimee Friedman

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"

- Helen Exley

"But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, 'The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.'"

- Alan Wilson Watts

"I flip my misfortune and grow me a fortune."

- J. Cole

"A Caterpie may change into a Butterfree, but the heart that beats inside remains the same."

- Brock

"It is those who get lost, who find the new ways."

- Nils Kjaer

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson

"One generation of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world."

- Charles Raison

"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."

- Mildred Struven

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

- Lao Tzu

"Transformations are different from the perspective of those looking at it from the outside vs those going through it (on the inside)."

- James C. Collins

"Think of the transformation as a process of buildup followed by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action. Within each of these three stages, there are two key concepts, shown in the framework and described below. Wrapping around this entire framework is a concept we came to call the flywheel, which captures the gestalt of the entire process of going from good to great."

- James C. Collins

"God became man, not so that he might be with us, but so that we might be with him. In other words, the incarnation is the starting point of our divinization.…It comes about so that, having become in a sense ‘divine,' we may be capable of effectively working with Christ to rebuild the world for the glory of the father."

- Adrian Nocent, OSB

"The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it."

- Frederick Buechner

"Every day was created to be happy, and this special Sunday gives you the opportunity to let go of your sadness and start over."

"Let this Sunday morning's sunlight burn the shadows of the past and light your way to a fresh start."

"My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises."

"Today is my birthday, and I have made an important decision for my life: I decided to give a new direction to my steps. I decided to walk more focused on happiness and harmony. I hope to have all the strength and help I need on this new path. Happy birthday to me!"

"A baby arrives, and just like that everything changes. The world gets bigger, heart grows fuller, and life means more."