Transformation Quotes

Self-acceptance is self-love in action.

~ Jodi Livon

Letting go facilitates the evolution of the soul.

~ Jodi Livon

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

~ Jodi Livon

Love and intuition are born of the same source. Of all the gifts you will receive in this life, love is the only one with everlasting power. Love is your companion in this world and into the next.

~ Jodi Livon

We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds.

~ Jodi Livon

Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.

~ Asa Don Brown

A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.

~ Oscar Wilde

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

~ Aberjhani

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, is already in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.

~ Suzy Kassem

Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because reading is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your life success is well designed by the mental transformation you experience. That mental transformation guides you to construct powerful decisions. You can't live life so well without mental make-ups.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The length of your shoe may change, the size of your pant may also change; but your life will never change until your mind changes!© more talks

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wishes and wants do not transform a person, actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.

~ Sol Luckman

I look forward to seeing you in the “jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas, all are welcomed for both ear and eye—promises of victory are high, for even if unattainable today, tomorrow still holds the torch and dream, like fire of paradise, glory of life, glory of eternity!

~ Martin Guevara Urbina

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.

~ Patricia Robin Woodruff

I know, ” she said, flatly. “Antimei warned me that you would ‘transform’ me. I was hoping it would be into a frog, or a racquiel, or perhaps a bear -- I’ve always wanted to be a bear! Not a ‘proper young lady’!” she said, bitterly.

~ Terry Mancour

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.

~ Liezi

With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Stepping back and connecting reconciliation to God’s story also helps us move away from dramatic visions of fixing the world, as if our job were to provide solutions to problems outside us. If Christians believe anything, it is that no one—including ourselves and the church—is separate from the brokenness as an untainted solution to the problems of our world. The new creation contends with the old. The dividing line between good and evil runs straight through each one of us. So the journey of reconciliation begins with a transformation of the human person.

~ Chris Rice

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of the world: to be relevant ('turn stones into loaves'), to be spectacular ('throw yourself down'), and to be powerful ('I will give you all these kingdoms'). There he affirmed God as the only source of his identity ('You must worship the Lord your God and serve him alone'). Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter - the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

~ Mary E. Demuth

The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.

~ Matt Farlow

We are not saved by good deeds, we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

~ Dillon Burroughs

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

~ Mother Teresa

Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.

~ Nikki Rowe

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in us is more than moral. There is a psychological evil, the distortion caused by selfishness and sin. Good moral intentions are enough to correct what is formally bad in our moral acts. But in order that our charity may heal the wounds of sin in our whole soul it must reach down into the furthest depths of our humanity, cleaning out all the infection of anxiety and false guilt that spring from pride and fear, releasing the good that has been held back by suspicion and prejudice and self-conceit. Everything in our nature must find its right place in the life of charity, so that the whole man may be lifted up to God, that the entire person may be sanctified and not only the intentions of his will.

~ Thomas Merton

Every new journey transforms the traveler.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

~ Pico Iyer

God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will

~ Sunday Adelaja

In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections of minerals in a kind of closet or chamber which would, at the push of a button, darken. Then ultraviolet lights would begin to glow and the minerals would seem to come alive, new colors, new possibilities, and architectures revealed. Plain stones became fantastic, “futuristic…” Of course there wasn’t any black light in the center of the earth, in the caves where they were quarried; how strange that these stones should have to be brought here, bathed with this unnatural light in order for their transcendent characters to emerge. Irradiation revealed a secret aspect of the world.Imagine illness as this light; demanding, torturous, punitive, it nonetheless reveals more of what things are. A certain glow of being appears. I think this is what is meant when we speculate that death is what makes love possible.

~ Mark Doty