Transformed Quotes - Page 18

• Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.

  Antoine Bechamp

  Prey, Lost

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• However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Practice, May

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• Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Cutting, Unique

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Apr 01, 2013

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• For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Law, Long, Opponents

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• The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, American West, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Night, Waiting, Heaven

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• The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Daughter, Men, Hands

  "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1966.

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• Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

  Nick Tosches

  Book, Passion, Unique

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• After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

  Jim Ryun

  Government, Dangerous World, Challenges

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• We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

  Ernst Junger

  Circles, May, Boundaries

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• It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant... You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively any one part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Competition, Would Be, Done

  "The Crisis Of Civilization".

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• Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

  Robert Greene

  Enemy, Worst, Realms

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015

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• An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

  Watchman Nee

  Cutting, Men, Hair

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.79, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• The will is transformed by experience, not information.

  Dallas Willard

  Coaching, Information

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself

  Alexandre Kojeve

  Reality, Men, Ideas

  Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press

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• In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

  Alexandre Kojeve

  Moving, Men, Desire

  Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.4, Cornell University Press

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• The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

  Tony Buzan

  Technique, Genius, Results

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• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

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• I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.

  Donella Meadows

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

  James W. Loewen

  Race, Land, Two

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press

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• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

  Pierre Loti

  Wish, Desire, Missionary

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• I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Opposites, Quality, Weakness

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.258, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

  Lukas Foss

  Artist, Play, Way

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• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

  Donald Miller

  Real, Nice, Character

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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