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• The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most fertile subject matter; the joy lies in transforming that subject matter and thus moving through it in a way that helps us grow while we create something of value to others.

  Judith Barrington

  Pain, Lying, Moving

  Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

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• A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Love Is, Enemy

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

  Paul Hawken

  Ties, Connections, Looks

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• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

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• Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

  Michael Korda

  Dream, Writing, Reality

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• There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

  Amit Ray

  Spiritual, Compassion, Frustration

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.95, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may be painful, but it will be nothing compared with the crises we will face if we continue to grow in a way that threatens the life-support systems on which we rely

  Jonathon Porritt

  Support Systems, Foundation, May

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• I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?

  Soledad O'Brien

  Believe, Self Worth, Journey

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• You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Desire, Trying

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• The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Tasks, Force

  "Honoring Dr. DuBois". Speech at International Cultural Evening at Carnegie Hall, February 23, 1968.

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• Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

  Joseph Beuys

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Sex, Son

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• The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

  Erwin McManus

  Heart, Men, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Struggle, Rocks

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• With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Fire, Events

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• People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Technique

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• The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

  Russell Kirk

  Thinking, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Way

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• Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Negativity

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• Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Buddhism, Men

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• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Strong, Science, Discovery

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• Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Vegetarianism, Loving You

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• This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.31, NYU Press

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• In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Tasks, Adequate

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.304, China Books

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• The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

  Marc Benioff

  Powerful, Technology, Opportunity

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