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• Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Pain, Adversity

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• The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862

  Rudolf Clausius

  Law, Being Positive, Process

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• The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Space, Listening, Despair

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Keys

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• Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

  Grace Hartigan

  Beautiful, Challenges, Possibility

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

  Glen David Gold

  Saws, Moments, Ends

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• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  Neil T Anderson

  Progressive, Moments, Salvation

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.

  Judy Reyes

  Numbers, Years, Work Out

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• The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

  Ralph Metzner

  Culture, Consciousness, Lsd

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• The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

  Ralph Metzner

  Discovery, Firsts, Lsd

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• Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Perception, Photographer

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Hospitality

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• Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

  Paul Collier

  Real, Opportunity, Use

  Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

  Deepak Chopra

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Song

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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Nyu, Malls, Insidious

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• When I look back on my life-and an extraordinary transformation is happening again to me right now - I describe it as my “point of observation” is moving. It is moving because my range of frequencies I am accessing is becoming greater. It’s not because I’m something special because anyone can do it.

  David Icke

  Moving, Special, Becoming

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, www.lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Eye, Journey

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• You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus

  Craig Groeschel

  Jesus, Nice, Inward

  "Christians, here's why we're losing our religion". www.foxnews.com. April 07, 2013.

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• For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.

  Florence Littauer

  Fred Littauer, Florence Littauer (1993). “Get a Life Without the Strife”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Decay, Thee, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Life Is, Universe

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.22, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

  Starhawk

  Opportunity, Ritual

  "Infinity in Your Hand : A Guide for the Spiritually Curious". Book by William H. Houff, p. 151, 1994.

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