Quotes About Transformation

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ? Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Joseph Campbell's wisdom: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." Own the fear, find the cave, and write a new ending for yourself, for the people you're meant to serve and support, and for your culture. Choose courage over comfort. Choose whole hearts over armor. And choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid. At the exact same time.

I'd love to skip over the hard stuff, but it just doesn't work. We don't change, we don't grow, and we don't move forward without the work. If we really want to live a joyful, connected, and meaningful life, we must talk about things that get in the way.

Learning to label emotions with a more nuanced vocabulary can be absolutely transformative.

We write our own daring endings. We craft love from heartbreak, Compassion from shame, Grace from disappointment, Courage from failure. Showing up is our power. Story is our way home. Truth is our song. We are the brave and brokenhearted. We are rising strong.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

How did I get here from there? How do I get there from here?

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful. —TERRI ST. CLOUD, WWW.BONESIGHARTS.COM1

As an adult, I have to constantly work at allowing myself to be vulnerable and authentic around some of these issues.

Wholehearted living is not a onetime choice. It is a process.

Real power is basically the ability to change something if you want to change it. It's the ability to make change happen. Real power is unlimited—we don't need to fight over it because there is plenty to go around. And the great thing about real power is our ability to create it. Real power doesn't force us to take it away from others—it's something we create and build with others. When we talk about

Jim Collins's classic book Good to Great.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Even

When we stop numbing and start feeling and learning again, we have to reevaluate everything, especially how to

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful. — TERRI ST. CLOUD,

Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change. If we question our need for power, think about this: How do you feel when you believe that you are powerless to change something in your life?

as the poet June Jordan wrote, "We are the ones we have been waiting for.

I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Mary Pipher's book Reviving Ophelia

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." I really do believe the light that I saw within the resilient people I interviewed was their spirit. I love the idea of being "lit from within.

I had to dig very deep and make the conscious choice to believe… to believe in myself and the possibility of living a different life.

It felt like a textbook breakdown to me, but Diana called it a spiritual awakening. I think we were both right. In fact, I'm starting to question if you can have one without the other.

I ultimately worked the AA program for a year, and let me just tell you, all the slogans are true. It does look like a Saturday Night Live skit where there are ten posters hanging in a row on a wood-paneled wall in a church basement, but they are the damn truth, and if you live by them, they will rock your world.

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.