Transformation proverbs

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◆ How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

- Benjamin Zander98

◆ We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the greatest degree of learning, healing and transformation. This connection is a powerful thing, with the ability to transform lives, and ultimately transform human experience.

- Kristi Bowman98

◆ Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

- T.F. Hodge98

◆ Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

- J.E.B. Spredemann98

◆ Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place.

- Stephen Richards98

◆ He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

- C.S. Lewis98

◆ She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut their fingers and mingle their blood and know this meant something. She longed for some transformation more lasting than that wrought by the law and his name, some visceral change he might effect in her so that anyone on the street with one glance would know she was his.

- Meredith Duran98

◆ I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

- Kohta Hirano98

◆ To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.

- Dejan Stojanovic98

◆ Beware Stephen! There will probably be a magical combat of some sort. I daresay I shall have to take on different forms – cockatrice, raw head and bloody bones, rains of fire, etc., etc. You may wish to stand back a little!

- Susanna Clarke98

◆ Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him.

- Kazimir Severinovich Malevich98

◆ As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.

- Cynthia Bourgeault98

◆ ...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

- Hermann Hesse98

◆ Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and the journey ends. They are not being allowed, encouraged, or equipped to love or to think like Christ. Yet in many ways a focus on spiritual formation fits what a new generation is really seeking. Transformation is a process, a journey, not a one-time decision.

- David Kinnaman98

◆ Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

- Tom Althouse98