Quotes About Transformation

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.

I always said, 'Whenever I get pregnant, I'm going to embrace all of the body changes that happen.' My focus has not been on any sort of snap-back or anything like that, because your body won't be the same after giving birth, and if anything, that's something to be celebrated, embraced, and owned.

You can change your body shape by permitting yourself to exercise and eat a healthy diet and so on - and we've heard miraculous stories of people who have lost hundreds of pounds, and they look like a completely different person - but that's not the norm for the average person, and a lot of times, people don't get that way in a healthy way.

I think it is important to keep redefining yourself as an actor with the roles you do and, at the same time, create diversity in your body of work.

From your first kid, your body still kind of looks the same once you get back in shape.

The changes that your body goes through during pregnancy are so radical, I've really tried to embrace and celebrate my new body, and hopefully I can encourage other women to do the same.

It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child transforms everything. Now you have someone helpless and tiny that depends on you and only you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, on that part of you.

Your dreams, ambition and experiences are creating a new person in you every day.

After a song comes out, it doesn't remain yours.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.