Quotes About Transformation

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

You're demonstrating a courage that most people can't even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

Carolyn Heilbrun

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.