Quotes About Transformation

A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.

When you become so dissatisfied with your office that the hundred story plummet and the sidewalk seem like the better option, so dissatisfied that you actually hurl yourself out the window, then you know the level of dissatisfaction necessary to awaken from delusion.

Ask yourself. Who am I? If you do it, you will become enlightened. There is no possible alternative. The only way self-inquiry can fail to work is if you fail to do it.

Be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it but because you'll be turned into the thing that can get it. It's not a process where you just ask for something and it magically appears, it's a process that breaks you down and rebuilds you into the right tool for the job.

Yes, I have an ego and it looks similar to the one I dropped to, as you say, achieve nirvana. But then I came back all enlightened and everything, and I needed something to wear. I look around and there's my discarded ego lying in a pile on the floor so I slip into it and here I am.

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

Life is a series of abandonings.

Strip malls are a symbol for marginal, low-experience stores that nobody really wants to go to. Over time, say within 10 years, maybe 15 percent of commerce will move online. Will that have a big impact on the physical world? Absolutely. What will that effect be? It will force stores to get better. The ones that don't get better will go by the wayside.

Strip malls are history.

To me, this book is sort of like a snakeskin. A snakeskin is something you might find on the side of the road and make something out of—a belt, say, or a hatband. The snake itself heads off doing more snake stuff—getting it on with lady snakes, eating rats, making more snakeskins, et cetera.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

I surrendered who I was to who you are..

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War

Shadows of what you'll become. Silhouettes.

You see, when you change your attitude, sparks fly in the universe. You're energized. You begin to see new possibilities. You move into action. You achieve extraordinary results. That's why I say when you change your attitude, you change your life!

Watch Your Words Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

And isn't taking a pill much easier than reengineering the way you lead your life?

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

I could not change my past but that I could rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right direction,

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade