Quotes about Transformation

A seed only realizes its potential the day you bury it.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.