Quotes About Transformation

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

For things to change, you have to change.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Change and everything will change for you.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.