Transforming The World Quotes

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

  Yukio Mishima

  Mean, Leaving, Looks

  "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1959.

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• Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Believe, Yoga, World

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• The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Medicine, Media

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Wish, World, Violence

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• I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of the communities were quite separated from the wider American society. Their rhetoric is still about transforming the world, but they're not having that much traffic with their neighbors.

  Christine Jennings

  War, Impact, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

  Robert Hughes

  Political, Intellectual, World

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Clouds, Smartphones, Tools

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• These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, Ideas, Effort

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Weather, Air

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.16, tredition

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• And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Differences, Singing, World

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• Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Believe, Yoga, World

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Home, Guy

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• At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

  Roberto Unger

  Future, Imagination, Vision

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• Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Home, Sacrifice, Fire

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• Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

  Bell Hooks

  Intimate Relationships, Self, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.34, Routledge

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

  John Gardner

  Goes On, Whispering, World

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage

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• Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Two, People

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