Transformation Quotes - Page 29

• It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Cute, Kids, Angel

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• Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Soul, Survival, World

  Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth S. Schussler (1994). “Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology”, p.121, A&C Black

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• The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

  Fred Hoyle

  Numbers, Suggestions, Might

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• As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power are indeed a nightmare and Peter Shane's extremely readable and well-informed book describes this disturbing transformation in frightening detail. For anybody who cares about our constitutional system of protected liberties, this book is indispensable. I couldn't put it down and grew angrier, and more concerned, with every page.

  Mickey Edwards

  Book, Government, People

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• I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.

  Anko Itosu

  Art, Moving, Years

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• The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.

  John Howard Griffin

  Loneliness, Men, Two

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• I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.

  Peter A. Levine

  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

  "Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body". Book by Peter A. Levine, 2005.

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• Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

  Andrea diSessa

  Learning, Black And White, Intelligent

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• 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

  Healthy, Credit, Medical Science

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• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  Bob Blumer

  Airplane, Aviation, Wonder

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• The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

  Anodea Judith

  Love, Drama, Power

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• 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

  Love, Christian, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”

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• All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

  Confucius

  Moon, Rivers, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.4, Delphi Classics

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• At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Art, Essence

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• Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Real, Eye, Black And White

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• Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Sound, Doxology, Should

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• What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

  Azam Ali

  Dream, Voice, Perfect

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• We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, Cities, America

  James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”

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• I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Long, Middle East, United States

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• Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

  David Platt

  Heart, Biblical, Mind

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Should Have, People, Holocaust

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• Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected every moment in your relationships. Do you try to possess someone? Then you are violent. How can one possess someone? Are you trying to dominate someone? Then you are violent. How can one dominate anyone? Love cannot dominate, love cannot possess.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Children, Play

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• First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Attitude, Naked

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• I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Worry, Anticipation

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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