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Quotes About Transformation

Everybody changes, Ellie figured. Everybody starts out as one kind of person and ends up being somebody else. … Even when you don't notice it, life is rearranging you.
~ Unknown
Although at times it may be frustrating and even painful to hold the tension of your yearning rather than to submerge it, when you align with it you align with the force of evolution itself.
~ Connie Zweig
Spiritual Practices In Hindu myth, Hanuman, servant of the god Ram, tells Ram: "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you." Can you see the evolution of your soul through service? How can you be the change you long to see in the world?
~ Connie Zweig
And this is what I mean by "aging from the inside out." If we merely move around our internal furniture, redesigning our roles and maintaining high gear, we do not see through the ego's charade. Instead, we permit it to continue its endless efforts at control. And this does not carry us deeper into our spiritual center, beyond ego.
~ Connie Zweig
Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed
~ Connie Zweig
And, when we continue to ask, "What do you want through that," at some point the answers always flip to something positive.
~ Unknown
We invite the part of ourselves we are working with to step into its Core State and have it. Then we invite our inner part to notice how already having the Core State as a way of being in the world transforms each of our Intended Outcomes.
~ Unknown
Finally, we notice how already having the Core State naturally transforms the original behavior we didn't like.
~ Unknown
Don't say such changes cannot happen. A vast freedom could live inside you. A loaf of bread wrapped in a cloth for the table is just an object, but inside the human body, it becomes a gladness for being alive! —Rumi
~ Unknown
Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.
~ Conrad Aiken
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
~ Constance Baker Motley
Piatra face ca un mormânt ori o cas? s? dureze mai mult decât este firesc. Ceea ce dureaz? mai mult? vreme devine muzeu ori închisoare. Ajunge o povar?. Un obstacol. Împiedic? s? se dezvolte o via?? nou?.
~ Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu
De fato, pela experiência acumulada, pelo talento e pela capacidade de inspirar confiança, eles são, em geral, ótimos terapeutas no começo das curas. Mas os tratamentos que dirigem duram para sempre, transformam-se em dependência química.
~ Unknown
All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
~ Unknown
The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
~ Unknown
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
~ Cordwainer Smith
I myself went into a hospital and came out French.
~ Cordwainer Smith
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
~ Cornel West
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Jesus Christ is able to untangle all the snarls in your soul, to banish all your complexes, and to transform even your fixed habit patterns, no matter how deeply they are etched in your subconscious.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.
~ Corrie Ten Boom