Quotes About Transformation

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.

Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Nothing will uproot your life more violently than true love—at least as far as I've always witnessed.

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one stage of our lives into the next, making sure we don't stumble or lose ourselves along the way. Ceremony and ritual march us carefully right through the center of our deepest fears about change…

I was not one for telling the truth back then. Truth telling was not my first instinct in any situation - especially in stressful situations. It took my many years to become an honest person, and I know why: because the truth is often terrifying. Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.

What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.