Warren Miller
Filmmaker, Writer
"A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom"
Transformation quotes
Transformation
259 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world."
Rahul Gandhi
Politician
"I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine."
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"I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation."
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"We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation."
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"I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."
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"When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us."
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"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
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"Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation."
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"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough."
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"We go through transformations when we are dealing with this world (spirit world). Go out and find whatever makes your spirit at peace."
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"When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity."
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"Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation."
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"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."
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"Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow."
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"Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle."
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"Energy is the master resource, because energy enables us to convert one material into another. As natural scientists continue to learn more about the transformation of materials from one form to another with the aid of energy, energy will be even more important."
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"We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it"
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"Crisis precedes transformation."
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"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not."
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"Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation."
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"Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment"
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"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."
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