Quotes About Transformation

Insight is the booby prize of therapy" is my favorite maxim of the trade, meaning that you can have all the insight in the world, but if you don't change when you're out in the world, the insight—and the therapy—is worthless

The nature of life is change

resist change.

We can't have change without loss.

What makes night within us may leave stars. —Victor Hugo

want to capture the process in which humans, struggling to evolve, push against their shells until they quietly (but sometimes loudly) and slowly (but sometimes suddenly) crack open.

In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

I want to capture the process in which humans, struggling to evolve, push against their shells until they quietly (but sometimes loudly) and slowly (but sometimes suddenly) crack open.

it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.

Irvin Yalom, the psychiatrist, wrote that it was "far better that [a patient make progress but] forget what we talked about than the opposite possibility (a more popular choice for patients)—to remember precisely what was talked about but to remain unchanged.

It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive.

quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

once they realize that they can (and must) construct their own lives, they're free to generate change.

Não podemos ter mudança sem perda, motivo pelo qual é tão frequente as pessoas dizerem que querem mudar, mas mesmo assim continuarem exatamente iguais.

once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too.

Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way. A lot can happen in the space of a step.

Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

Brez izgube ni spremembe, in prav zato se pogosto dogaja, da sicer ljudje izrazijo željo po spremembi, a kljub temu ostanejo pri starem.

needed to remember that he would never be that man again. As he was now, he did not

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.