Transformative Quotes

“Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Usually, when I dream of flying
I am simply flapping my arms
and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky.
Last night was different.
I missed you so much
and my yearning was so powerful
that I sprouted wings like a phoenix
and soared to reach you.
And now I finally understand:
if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry.
Surely, love has metamorphosed them.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!”
― Germany Kent

“Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring Him so that others can see Him through you.”
― Germany Kent

“Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.”
― Germany Kent

“Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation. Ashes to ashes. It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.”
― Robert Dunbar, Martyrs and Monsters

“Living in peace has transformative power!”
― Germany Kent

“Havana, Cuba, in which city yellow fever had not failed to make its yearly appearance during the past one hundred and forty years... Havana was freed from yellow fever within ninety days. Dr. Walter Reed, 1902”
― Walter Reed

“In one respect New Orleans has set an example for all the world in the fight against yellow fever. The first impression was the complete organization of the citizens and the rational and reasonable way in which the fight has been conducted by them. With a tangible enemy in view, the army of defense could begin to fight rationally and scientifically. The... spirit in which the citizens of New Orleans sallied forth to win this fight strikes one who has been witness to the profound gloom, distress, and woe that cloud every other epidemic city. Rupert Boyce, Dean of Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases, 1905”
― Rupert Boyce

“The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay.

(from Now I've Become a Butterfly)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“If we can recognize what makes us unique and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding—essentially, a transformative experience for our students.”
― Carlos Heleno, A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Hired Teaching

“But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“We cannot really love the dead. We love a fantasm that secretly consoles. What love sometimes mistakes for death is a kind of intense suffering, a pain that can be endured and absorbed. But the idea of a real ending, that cannot be envisaged . . . Indeed, in the language of love the concept of an ending is devoid of sense. (So we must go beyond love or utterly change it.)”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“In thirty minutes, Pascal was at my door with a bag of beignets he had freshly fried. We ate them in my bed, getting powdered sugar on our clothes, and then on our underwear, and then on our naked bodies.
"Who was that out there?" he said, his tongue edging up from my collarbone, to my neck, to the curve of my ear. His hands were on my butt, and my hands were on his. We were pressing into each other as much as we could, as much as was possible until we were finally one.
"No one," I said, as he began pushing into me.
No one, I repeated to myself. No one. No one.
Inside, a mountain of tension squeezed tighter and tighter before crunching into a tiny crystalline diamond. That diamond shattered into a billion pieces of wonder and I came harder than I'd ever come before. I was broken, but I was also new.
I silently cried myself to sleep with Pascal beside me. But when I woke up, I felt much better. Kissing Pascal had made me feel like another person. And after having sex with him, I knew that the change was finally complete.”
― Jessica Tom, Food Whore

“It doesn't have to be that way. Belief can be powerful and intimate and transformative."

Anne shook her head. "Religion is the opiate of the masses," she said, and I shot her a killing look.

"Opioids are the opiates of the masses," I said.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“When we feel secure in our comfort zones and die there without taking challenges for greater heights, we die with great transformative dreams and many lives perish.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Rather than yielding to power in despondence and defeat, we can radicalise against it. We can become so thoroughly repellent that they wouldn’t dare tell us to overcome our adversity, so repellent that instead of condescension, the only feelings we arouse in the normalised masses are insurmountable fear, dread and disgust.”
― Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

“Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice.”
― Pamela Wallberg

“Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.”
― Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave

“The work directed against mosquitoes carrying yellow fever had an equally good effect upon malaria, especially when anti-anopheles work was extended to the suburbs of the city. Before the year 1901 Havana had yearly from 300 to 500 deaths from malaria, rising as high in 1898 as 1,900 deaths. Since 1901 there has been a steady decrease in the malaria death rate until 1912, when there were only four deaths. Four deaths from malaria in a city in the tropics the size of Havana, about 300,000 population, means the extinction of malaria in that city.”
― William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama

“A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.”
― A.D. Posey

“If we can recognize what makes us unique, and how we can positively impact our students, then we can make teaching much more meaningful and learning much more rewarding—essentially, a transformative experience for our students.”
― Carlos Heleno, A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Hired Teaching

“Propaganda to enemy forces, called persuasion, proceeded from the assumption of their basic humanity, i.e. that their hearts and minds were equally capable of conscience and patriotism, and that they were capable of repudiating the dehumanized activities which they were pursuing under the direction of imperialism.”
― James and Grace Lee Boggs

“Experiential wellness is transformative, the sheer adrenaline-rushing activities give you the much-desired break and add life to your life.”
― Prem Jagyasi, Dr Prem's Guide - Wellness Tourism

“Using pain medication protects us from feeling select infirmities. There is an extensive list of medications available to reduce or eliminate unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential physical damage as well as moderate depression and anxiety associated with chronic pain. A recognized danger of taking various pain diminishing medicines is that some pharmaceutical drugs prevent people from feeling ordinary symptoms of pain that would otherwise alert them to the existence of a medical condition that might be life threatening if not immediately treated. Sometimes we must not act to mask or dull pain but listen to the important message that pain sends us. Experiencing fundamental variations in our exterior world or undergoing a series of personal transformations can prove painful and life altering.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I learned from an early age that anyone is capable of huge and transformative change, at any time. I know because I achieved it myself.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“If coming undone if what you need to gain clarity then do it while giving yourself grace. Do not forget that to live is to feel, connect, evolve, and become. The energy that comes in, must come out—it is a cycle of change.”
― Dhayana Alejandrina

“In the grand tapestry of personal development, motivation acts as the driving force, happiness as the destination, and self-improvement as the transformative journey. Staying motivated demands a conscious effort to find inspiration in the mundane, creating a reservoir of energy that propels you forward. Authentic happiness arises from living in alignment with your values, and the pursuit of being better and stronger necessitates a commitment to continual growth and learning. Recognizing toxic individuals and political ideologies as obstacles to your progress is essential; distancing yourself from negativity is not just an act of self-care but a strategic move towards fostering a life of purpose and positivity.”
― James William Steven Parker