140 quotes
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
— Haruki Murakami
“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformation”
— Peter Levine
“A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!”
— Moritake Arakida
“There is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopeless”
— Desmond Tutu
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
— William James
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
— Franz Kafka
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
— Unknown
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
— Katharine Lee Bates
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“We lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.”
— Judith Butler
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
“I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art”
— Kazimir Malevich
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The power of mindful awareness to transform our experience of suffering into wisdom is one of the great discoveries of the contemplative tradition.”
— Nyanaponika Thera
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”
— Buckminster Fuller
“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
— Wayne Dyer
“You could call this the moment I became an educated person I mean the moment I was no longer a person who merely learned but someone who was actually changed by what I learned”
— Tara Westover
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
“Healing is not about going back to who you were before it is about becoming who you were meant to be”
— Thema Bryant
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonder”
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
“When pain is fully felt it turns to something else entirely”
— Mark Nepo
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed and healing flows between them”
— Carl Jung
“The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.”
— Plotinus
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion our lives are transformed when we act in healing ways”
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
“When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed”
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism but faith with openness equals transformation”
— Brene Brown
“Transformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassion”
— Richard Rohr
“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value”
— Hermann Hesse
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
— Octavia Butler
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.”
— Laozi
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion and our lives are transformed when we act from these truths”
“To exist humanly is to name the world to change it”
— Paulo Freire
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Take an object do something to it then do something else to it”
— Jasper Johns
“Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning.”
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
— Ben Hecht
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.”
— Amartya Sen
“Gratitude produces a true spiritual alchemy turning ordinary days into thanksgivings.”
— A.J. Cronin
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal. True creativity transforms what it takes.”
— Igor Stravinsky
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I write you and in writing am transformed”
— Clarice Lispector
“Family love is the most powerful force in the world. It cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment.”
— Voltaire
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
— John Wooden
“Whatever you do be compassionate for compassion transforms everything it touches”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Take an object do something to it do something else to it”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
— Chuang Tzu
“Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal and transform through creativity.”
— T.S. Eliot
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being we are enough and that is the ultimate healing”
— Ram Dass
“Silence is essential for deep transformation to take place”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoon”
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
— Ban Ki-moon
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already within our families.”
— J.K. Rowling
“If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst”
— Thomas Hardy
“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value toward peace.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”
— Adyashanti
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright and make it their own through creativity.”
— Aaron Sorkin
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
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