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Transformation Quotes (page 6)

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. Bell Hooks
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? Orhan Pamuk
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anais Nin
It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a lot. And didn't all this thinking and looking involve their breasts and lips and legs? Female human beings were objects of the most intense interest and scrutiny on Mitchell's part. And yet he didn't think that a word like objectification covered the way these alluring - but intelligent! - creatures made him feel. What Mitchell felt when he saw a beautiful girl was more like... Jeffrey Eugenides
Paulo Coelho quote: "Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are..."
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. Paulo Coelho
Abraham Lincoln quote: "Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. Abraham Lincoln
... Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals. David Sedaris
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature. Soren Kierkegaard
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "If you begin to understand what you are without trying to..."
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Paulo Coelho quote: "What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or..."
What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? Paulo Coelho
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry. Robert Stone
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "Analysis does not transform consciousness."
Analysis does not transform consciousness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. Jose Saramago
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. Nathaniel Hawthorne
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being. Stanislav Grof

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