Transformative Experience Quotes

First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

I tremendously enjoyed my journey in professional wrestling, and I wouldn't want to trade a time or a place, even the low times, because it was those things that kind of tempered me and forged me and pushed me ahead to be here now.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

Music, at its very best, is dangerous.

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.

I design therefore I become.

I did not go through the Book. The Book went through me.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed the game for me.

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it as I could because there is no other place like hell for a full and complete education.

When I'm onstage I feel changed.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

This was a seminal moment in my life - my dad took me to see the original production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at the Palace Theatre in 1973. I thought it was just amazing, so powerful. The idea of using rock music to tell the story of Jesus was incredible.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'