More quotations tagged with “transformation”
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith
I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond.
—Mary Kaye Medinger
…you are meant to grow into a true human being. Right now you are to a human being what an acorn is to an oak tree. A good start, that's all. You've got a long way to go, baby, and you're not going to grow into your full potential sitting in front of the laptop, bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand, dick in the other, anime porn boring a hole in your corneas and consciousness. Just a thought.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
—Norman Mailer
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
—Bell Hooks