Is the verb necessary for this sentence to make sense?


I recently started rewatching Naruto and there's [one opening song by Little
by Little](http://www.kasi-time.com/item-10935.html) with the lyrics:

> 悲しみをやさしさに  
>  自分らしさを力に

It is supposed to mean something like "turning sadness into kindness, your
uniqueness (?) into strength". But I just wonder if that still makes sense
when separated from the rest of the song. I mean, there's no verb (like _turn_
). Would it be okay to say it as a quotation without the context that the rest
of the song carries?




Japanese is a contextual language. Many elements of a sentence are omitted if
they should be clear or are irrelevant. Verbs, although technically the only
thing required grammatically, sometimes are omitted as well if it's obvious
what it should be. This is especially true if they are short and have broad
meanings.

These phrases make sense without explicitly stating the verb or knowing the
rest of the song because it's clear what it is: する. It's clear because that's
really the only thing it _can_ be. In the context of not only the song, but of
what we're given from the sentences themselves, it's the only verb I can think
of that makes sense and works grammatically.

