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• What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Broken, Doe

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Powerful, Simple, Who I Am

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• A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

  Knut Hamsun

  Light, Smell, Tasks

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• San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled--or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?

  Edmund White

  Dream, Gay, Cities

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.30, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but this had something greater. More than a flash of fire, it had an unbreakable, perhaps eternal bond of connection. Mikey had transformed back into himself by the end of the kiss, and the moment their lips parted he knew, as he should have known long, long ago, that no one - not Milos, not another Afterlight, not anyone in any world - could ever come between him and Allie, from now until the day they met their maker.

  Neal Shusterman

  Passion, Kissing, Fire

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• [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

  Meister Eckhart

  Ignorance, Knowing, Unknowing

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• The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.

  Penelope Lively

  Block, Grief, Eye

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Fall, Heart

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• What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Evil, Rose

  "The Triumph of Easter" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1938.

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• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  Haruki Murakami

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Despair, Sitting

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• Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will no longer have to pretend to be someone you're not. You will no longer have to prove you're good enough. When you embrace your shadow you will no longer have to life in fear. Find the gifts of your shadow and you will finally revel in all the glory of your true self. Then you will have the freedom to create the life you have always desired.

  Debbie Ford

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Self

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• Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

  Nhat Hanh

  Shine On, Shining, Live In The Moment

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• Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Lying, Reading, Destiny

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• Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fear, Waiting, Promise

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• That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

  Suzanne Collins

  Saws, Firsts, First Time

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

  Jodi Picoult

  Stories, Definitions, Stones

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011

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• One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Morning, Book

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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• Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

  Keanu Reeves

  Death, Dying, Waste

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• The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Comprehension

  Samael Aun Weor (2008). “Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Gnosis, the Consciousness, and Learning How to Think”, Glorian Publishing

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• Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mean, Understanding, Secret

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• Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Sacrifice, Energy, Different

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