Transfiguring Light Quotes & Sayings

I trained myself to perform on the field. — Steve Carlton

What do you mean? We have it, we raise it, we send it to school, keep it from getting eaten by wolves or becoming a stripper, and we're good. — Jay Crownover

You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own — Kerry E. Wagner

Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one's life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the existential crisis by which art - great art - is fully experienced. There is a fluidity between art and life, then, in the same way that there is, in the best lives, a fluidity between mind and matter, self and soul, life and death. Experience seems to stream clearly through some lives, rather than getting slowed and clogged up in the drift-waste of ego, or stagnating in little inlets of despair, envy, rage. It has to do with seizing and releasing as a single gesture. It has to do with standing in relation to life and death ... owning an emptiness that, because you have claimed it, has become a source of light, wearing your wound that, like a ramshackle house on some high exposed hill, sings with the hard wind that is steadily destroying it. — Christian Wiman

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. — Hermann Hesse

We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax. — Robert F. Engle

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them. — Julie Walters

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35) — R.C. Sproul

It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe. — Charles Michael Davis

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in. — Jan Egeland

Positive affirmations are powerful, but they can be overrun by complaining and negativity if you allow your mind to focus in that direction. As soon as you start complaining about how difficult this process is, you have begun using negative affirmations, and that will in turn give power to your prior longing to smoke (as if that needs empowerment). — Gudjon Bergmann