For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

There are things we can’t undo, but perhaps there is a kind of constructive remorse that could transform regrettable acts into something of service to life.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God

The power of education is that it can transform lives and break down barriers.

That’s why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

Words have the power to heal, to transform, to connect us to one another

The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.

Learn from it and let it go

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Surround yourself with positive energy and watch your life transform.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Chefs are like magicians – they transform raw ingredients into something magical.

The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

The Philosophy of Nature takes up the material, prepared for it by physics out of experience, at the point to which physics has brought it, and again transforms it, without basing it ultimately on the authority of experience. Physics therefore must work into the hands of philosophy, so that the latter may translate into a true comprehension (Begriff) the abstract universal transmitted to it, showing how it issues from that comprehension as an intrinsically necessary whole.

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

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are small precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other greats and who can transform it in an original manner.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself and its seed. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with… that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been… the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to die so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as the reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love

My intention was never to transform into a different person. What other people think of me is none of my business.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

After the rain cometh the fair weather

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter

You can never change what you don’t confront and transform what you avoid.

You can spin your struggles into gold, you just got to believe in yourself.