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Quotes About Transformation

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
~ Robert Frost
Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.
~ Caroline Myss
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.
~ Nhat Hanh
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
~ Ryan Holiday
Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.
~ Dalai Lama
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?
~ Seraphim of Sarov
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
~ Anita Diament
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
~ Timothy Keller
Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
~ Henry Miller
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
~ Matthew Arnold
For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.
~ John Green
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.
~ William Shakespeare
Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
~ Oprah Winfrey
In this dream, I wasn't a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote's almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.
~ Patricia Briggs
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
~ Catherine of Siena
Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog
~ Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
~ John Darnielle