Quotes About Evolution

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

among the million things the brain is good at, the overriding function of the brain is to help an individual survive and thrive.

he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

ROADMAP TASK FOUR: COLLECT AND TELL STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION

People love movies about characters who transform, and they love businesses that help them experience transformation themselves.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

You can see the arc of the questions naturally yields a transformation story.

The point is that people are drawn to transformation. When they see transformation in others, they want it for themselves.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

4.  Collect and Tell Stories of Transformation.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

The point of a story is the character arc, the change.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

I could be judging unfairly, but all the people I've met who've really changed from unhealthy to healthy have a story, a story about hitting rock bottom, realizing what they were doing wrong, and radically changing the way they live so they don't repeat their mistakes. Characters only change when they live through a story.

want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

It's hard for me to admit, but there are people who become rocks who hinder others. Perhaps there is redemption for these people and perhaps there is hope, but this doesn't change the fact that they are not safe. I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people. I'm not just talking about romance either. I'm talking about friendships, neighbors, and people we agree to do business with.

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us.

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

anachronisms.

it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.