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Transformation Quotes


"Men are like caterpillars; their potential to soar lies not on the outside, but within."


"You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center."


"I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!"



"The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision."


"A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed."



"Don't just bring religion to people but also change their value system."


"There are women's voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change. I believe that all these legends about people changing into animals at night " like the stories of the werewolf, for instance " were invented by men who saw women transformed at night " from idealized, worshipful creatures into animals and thought that they were possessed."



"Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain."


"When you become the light, there will be no darkness."


"Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow."


"I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second."


"Turn your past wound of misery and sadness into a wonder of life."


"You have the power. You have the magic to transform the world, you just have to use it."



"I traded cowardice for cruelty, I traded weakness for ferocity."


"So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal."


"Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love."



"Discover yourself, open up your gift, realize your potential and you will see your life changed."



"God can turn your weaknesses into your strength."



"To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living."


"Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind."



"When the kingdom of light increases, the kingdom of darkness reduces."


"We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage."



"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."


"Darkness is necessary for evolvement."


"A farewell to my shadow is not my death, it's my rebirth in darkness."


"If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within."



"We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed."


"The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows."



"God knows how to turn your helplessness into strength."


"A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow."


"Joy turns tears into laughter. Hope turns mourning into gladness. Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune. Faith turns defeat into triumph. Love turns enmity into friendship."


"Before we can change our condition, we have to change our thoughts."


"Pain is a pleasure in disguise."


"What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest."


"The sacred transformation, change life!"



"Use time to convert yourself."


"Every sacred travel transforms the soul."


"Small caterpillars still become big butterflies."


"From rocks come gold. From coal comes diamonds. From oysters come pearls. From caterpillars come butterflies. From adversity come the great."


"Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!"


"Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house-the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture-must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story."


"Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself."


"It's a number."It's not, she said. "It's a chance to wake up new."


"A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm."


"I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were not so before! I conclude that "Success resides behind the curtains of complains; tear those pieces of complains away and you will see the stage of your dreams clearly"!"


"Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I've taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I've become a man!"


"To transform mankind into a joyful garden, let us bloom like a spring flower."


"Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind's internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment."


"He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
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