Transformation Quotes

Most popular transformation quotes

Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us.

possibility thoughts

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso quote.
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

painters

I am really a cat transformed into a woman. - Brigitte Bardot quote.
I am really a cat transformed into a woman.

actors

The transformation into a werewolf in particular is a metaphor for adolescence and the sexual transformation of a child. - Anne Rice quote.
The transformation into a werewolf in particular is a metaphor for adolescence and the sexual transformation of a child.

adolescence

What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures.
Lina Wertmuller Interview With the Muse: Remarkable Women Speak on Creativity and Power

defeat

Transformation is a journey without a final destination. - Marilyn Ferguson quote.
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

destination

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy.  You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself. - James Allen quote.
If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy.  You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

happiness

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense out of life. - Erich Fromm quote.
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense out of life.

heroism

Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. - Audre Lorde quote.
Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.

pain

The sacred call is transformative.  It is an invitation to our souls, a mysterious call reverberating within, a tug on our hearts that can neither be ignored or denied.
You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes. - Stanley Kunitz quote.
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.
Any transformation of one person invites accommodating transformations in others. - R. D. Laing quote.
Any transformation of one person invites accommodating transformations in others.
R. D. Laing Going Crazy: The Radical Therapy of R. D. Laing and Others
Characteristically, it is when a man is at the end of his strength and endurance, but nevertheless holds on, that the transforming symbol floats into consciousness.
P. W. Martin Experiment in Depth: A Study of the Work of Jung, Eliot, and Toynbee
An underlying urge to self-transformation possibly lies at the basis of all existence, finding expression in the process of growth, development, renewal, directed change, perfection. - Lewis Mumford quote.
An underlying urge to self-transformation possibly lies at the basis of all existence, finding expression in the process of growth, development, renewal, directed change, perfection.
I take pleasure in my "transformations." I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. - Anaïs Nin quote.
I take pleasure in my "transformations." I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
Anaïs Nin Linotte, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.