Transformation Quotes

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards... If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve... Whatever happens, take responsibility... The only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

Today.....I begin a new life".

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

That which shrinks must first expand.

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

I broke my heart in twoSo hard I struck.What matter? for I knowThat out of rock,Out of a desolate source,Love leaps upon its course.

Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

In time and with water, everything changes.

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

O friend, my bosom said,Through thee alone the sky is arched.Through thee the rose is red;All things through thee take nobler form,And look beyond the earth,The mill-round of our fate appearsA sun-path in thy worth.Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair;The fountains of my hidden lifeAre through thy friendship fair.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.