Transformation Quotes
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.
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.
Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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.
But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
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.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.
The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation will occur.
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.
The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
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.
In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.
The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
Well, in Twilight, I started out dying my hair blonde. And then, as the movie progressed, I wore wigs. The wigs went through a transformation. In Breaking Dawn, it's a little longer. That's my arc.
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.