141 quotes
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
— Franz Kafka
“You could call this the moment I became an educated person I mean the moment I was no longer a person who merely learned but someone who was actually changed by what I learned”
— Tara Westover
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already within our families.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
— Lao Tzu
“When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
“We lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.”
— Judith Butler
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
— Buckminster Fuller
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
— Haruki Murakami
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonder”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
— Maya Angelou
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Unknown
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
— William James
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
— Henry David Thoreau
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion and our lives are transformed when we act from these truths”
— Desmond Tutu
“Healing is not about going back to who you were before it is about becoming who you were meant to be”
— Thema Bryant
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoon”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being we are enough and that is the ultimate healing”
— Ram Dass
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning.”
— Richard Rohr
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal and transform through creativity.”
— T.S. Eliot
“A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!”
— Moritake Arakida
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
“When pain is fully felt it turns to something else entirely”
— Mark Nepo
“Gratitude produces a true spiritual alchemy turning ordinary days into thanksgivings.”
— A.J. Cronin
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
— Chuang Tzu
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
“There is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopeless”
“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformation”
— Peter Levine
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
— Katharine Lee Bates
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
“If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst”
— Thomas Hardy
“Transformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassion”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed and healing flows between them”
— Carl Jung
“Silence is essential for deep transformation to take place”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright and make it their own through creativity.”
— Aaron Sorkin
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
“Family love is the most powerful force in the world. It cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment.”
— Voltaire
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra
“I write you and in writing am transformed”
— Clarice Lispector
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed”
“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value toward peace.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”
— Adyashanti
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The power of mindful awareness to transform our experience of suffering into wisdom is one of the great discoveries of the contemplative tradition.”
— Nyanaponika Thera
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
— Ben Hecht
“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value”
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
— Ban Ki-moon
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.”
— Plotinus
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“Take an object do something to it then do something else to it”
— Jasper Johns
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion our lives are transformed when we act in healing ways”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
— Octavia Butler
“To exist humanly is to name the world to change it”
— Paulo Freire
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.”
— Amartya Sen
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism but faith with openness equals transformation”
— Brene Brown
“Whatever you do be compassionate for compassion transforms everything it touches”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
— John Wooden
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.”
— Laozi
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art”
— Kazimir Malevich
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“Take an object do something to it do something else to it”
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal. True creativity transforms what it takes.”
— Igor Stravinsky
“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
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