Transforming Quotes · Page 4

When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality…

— Thomas Kinkade

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

— John Updike

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

— Salma Hayek

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

— Tony Kushner

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

— Anatoly Chubais

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

— Wes Fesler

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

— Jack Kornfield

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion

— Anonymous

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of…

— Arthur Erickson

I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming…

— Wadada Leo Smith

I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that…

— Bernie Sanders

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to…

— Joel Coen

I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it…

— Naomie Harris

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the…

— John Burroughs

We're not going to stop trying to live big. It's about transforming your stress so that it doesn't take over. The first…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— Dejan Stojanovic

When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of…

— Nhat Hanh

What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in…

— Terence McKenna

The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets…

— Sharon Salzberg

In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their…

— Os Guinness

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who…

— Steven James

Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned…

— Fernando Pessoa

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time…

— Michael Hastings

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

— Cleve Jones

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

— Pico Iyer

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop…

— Dalai Lama

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

— Adrienne Rich

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

— Robin Furth

“The Word is penetrating the hearts, transforming the very being and existence of those hearing with joy and expectancy.”

— Ronny McLean

Your life isn't about the big break, it's about one significant life transforming step at a time.

— Tim Storey

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

— Fred Alan Wolf

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

— Dalia Mogahed

“He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All”

— Daniel Wallace

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

— Anonymous

“Food must pass through the fire before it gets to the dining table. The same way we go through storms to get…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

— Anonymous

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good.

— Trevor Hall