Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I have to reinvent myself.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

The day you make a decision about your life is the day your world will change.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.