Quotes About Transformation

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

As an artiste, I want to become more people, play more characters.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

Days were tough to pass. So, I used to work out in the mornings and sleep during the day. I turned day into night, night into day.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

I joined the Ballets Russes when I was 14, and my name was changed twice. I was known as Marie Istomina, then as Felia Siderova. When I went to Hollywood and made my first movie, 'Mission to Moscow,' in 1943, I became Lily Norwood.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

You have to go through a point where you actually hate yourself because when you come to this point of hating yourself so much and break into pieces, you can put yourself back together in the most beautiful way possible.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.

That would be the most powerful thing I've ever achieved, if I can take a kid who doesn't like exercise and get them to enjoy it. That would be the ultimate, ultimate achievement for me.

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Motherhood changes everything.

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

Motherhood changed me completely.

Motherhood has changed me completely; you are not in control of yourself.

And I think that motherhood has made me a better actress as well.

Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.

What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.