Transformation quotes

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◆ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

- Rumi100

◆ ...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

- John Geddes99

◆ And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

- Angela Carter99

◆ To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before.

- Belsebuub99

◆ We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ To experience what isn't, love what is.

- Eric Micha'el Leventhal99

◆ Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

- Kohta Hirano99

◆ When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

- Stephen Richards99

◆ The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

- Cameron Conaway99

◆ Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren't just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

- Sarah McLean99

◆ Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

- Toni Cade Bambara99

◆ If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.

- T.F. Hodge99

◆ I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

- Anthony Kiedis99