141 quotes
“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.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal and transform through creativity.”
— T.S. Eliot
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
— Octavia Butler
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“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”
— Haruki Murakami
“I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art”
— Kazimir Malevich
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
— Lao Tzu
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Maya Angelou
“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 to achieve that beauty”
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.”
— Laozi
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Take an object do something to it then do something else to it”
— Jasper Johns
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
— Ben Hecht
“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
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
“Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning.”
— Richard Rohr
“If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst”
— Thomas Hardy
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright and make it their own through creativity.”
— Aaron Sorkin
“Whatever you do be compassionate for compassion transforms everything it touches”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonder”
— Buckminster Fuller
“As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty”
— Henry David Thoreau
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“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
“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 lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
— Unknown
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“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”
“Take an object do something to it do something else to it”
“We lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves, transformed.”
— Judith Butler
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
— William Shakespeare
“I write you and in writing am transformed”
— Clarice Lispector
“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”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed”
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform”
— Ban Ki-moon
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
— John Wooden
“When pain is fully felt it turns to something else entirely”
— Mark Nepo
“Gratitude produces a true spiritual alchemy turning ordinary days into thanksgivings.”
— A.J. Cronin
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion our lives are transformed when we act in healing ways”
— Desmond Tutu
“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
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
— Wayne Dyer
“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
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.”
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“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”
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism but faith with openness equals transformation”
— Brene Brown
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly”
“Transformed people transform people through the power of authentic compassion”
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”
— Adyashanti
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“When I started counting my blessings my whole life turned around.”
— Willie Nelson
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Silence is essential for deep transformation to take place”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
— Katharine Lee Bates
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
— Chuang Tzu
“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
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoon”
“There is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopeless”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
— William James
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
— Franz Kafka
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“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
“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just the economy.”
— Amartya Sen
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion and our lives are transformed when we act from these truths”
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
“A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!”
— Moritake Arakida
“To exist humanly is to name the world to change it”
— Paulo Freire
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“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
“The very act of paying attention to our experience as it is transforms it”
— B. Alan Wallace
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal. True creativity transforms what it takes.”
— Igor Stravinsky
“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
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