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Transformation Quotes
"Your breaking point is often your blessing point."
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"But death can't be the final word, can it? I mean, look at this fire. The wood that we threw on it has been decimated, or so it seems, but in reality, the wood has been transformed into gasses and ashes. I think about that, you know, about how nothing is ever destroyed, but only changes form."
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"If one looks at a balancing scale putting 'fear of change on one side and 'status quo on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped - only when the discomfort becomes greater than the fear of change does the scale tip."
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"A person can't change all at once."
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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
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"To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?"
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"We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same."
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"The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come."
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"I change the world, the world changes me."
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"The phoenix must burn to emerge."
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"Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country's Western wilderness held in my mind the promise of escape from myself, the liberation only a huge transformation could grant me. This walk would be my salvation. It had to be."
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"The thing about life, about change, is there are always lessons. Some are subtle, others not, and sometimes it takes being ripped out of your comfort zone to finally get it-then it's transformative."
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"Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you."
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"Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?"
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"There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation."
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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
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"No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been."
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"When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know."
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"I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I'd be wise to develop the habit of following my nature."
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"We can't stop smiling at each other. I can't believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don't even mean sex, though it's wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget."
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"Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become the person you must next become."
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"There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged."
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"When you judge yourself, chances are you also are judging others. True self-acceptance releases you from both."
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"By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!"
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"Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose."
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"They'd reached the point of no return, and she wanted to throw herself into the fire until the flames melted away the years of ice that claimed her."
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"The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes."
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"As a pearl is formed and its layers grow, a rich iridescence begins to glow. The oyster has taken what was at first an irritation and intrusion and uses it to enrich its value. How can you coat or frame the changes in your life to harvest beauty, brilliance, and wisdom?"
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"In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life."
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"When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this."
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"It's amazing how drastically your life can change when you stop accepting shit you hate."
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"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
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"The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself."
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"If we don't currently have what we so desire, then we must become a different person. Beliefs and thought patterns is the road to victory."
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"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
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"When we were still living in the world of sin God already saw us as saved citizens of His kingdom."
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"If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her."
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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
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"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
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"Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered."
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"Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart."
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"I could forget that part, but it had to have been true."
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"My take on personal evolution is largely about the spirit of connecting and disconnecting things, relating to what I call "the gap or time and space between things. It is also about becoming practical in all this, developing the power and precision to simply bring the grand ideas home, to compress the paradigm of perception/choice/action/result into a single gesture."
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"It is not enough to believe. Believe must lead to change of attitude and conduct."
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"Exquisite pain. The kind you wanted to feel every day for the rest of your life. It was the pain of finally having something you wanted. Something you'd longed for. Longed for since you had memories. Something life taught you to believe you'd never have. Something, if you lived without it, it left a void in your soul you knew would never be filled. Something, without it, you knew you'd never be whole. It was something you needed. It was as necessary as breath. It was what was required to complete you'."
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"After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world."
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"I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound."
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"People who have been initiated 'broke through in what felt like breaking down'."
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