Transform Quotes

“Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“IN THE HANDS OF MAN

He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”
― Marian Wright Edelman

“When we interpret and transform external events into internal experiences, we can navigate our emotional odyssey, reconstruct our sense of self, and integrate the past into a coherent narrative, making sense of the present and preparing for the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Blind dates can be a creative process showing life as a canvas upon which we paint our experiences, fraught with challenges and uncertainties. When we seek to shape our existence, we want to transform the mundane into an exclusive setting. ("Blind date")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)”
― Steven James, Story

“When we reframe or reinterpret our difficulties, we can transform resignation into a source of personal empowerment. In our ongoing struggle for self-overcoming, we must harness our inner strength and creativity and assert our will in the face of challenging times. ("Check, and mate")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.”
― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Enmity is a mental state, our task is to transform the enmity between the states into deep friendship.”
― Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

“Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“God transforms us one area at a time.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Non sum qualis eram -I am not what I used to be”
― Jenna Maclaine

“In an essay, clinical psychologist David Elkins highlights the transformative element of awe. He describes moments of awe as "the most important, transformative experiences of life… Awe is a lightning bolt that marks in memory those moments when the doors of perception are cleansed and we see with startling clarity what is truly important in life.”
― Jake Eagle LPC, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

“We either choose to be entertained or we choose to be transformed. For entertainment is often the escape of the mind that is too fearful to hear the cry of the soul.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t divide ordinary life from spiritual life. They are one, they are inseparably one. To separate them is to create a split humanity, a schizophrenic humanity. Life is a unity, an organic unity, indivisible. Nothing is higher and nothing is lower. There is no hierarchy, everything exists simultaneously on the same plane. So nothing has to be renounced, nothing has to be rejected.
Of course everything has to be transformed and transformed through love, transformed through bliss, transformed through joy.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“The transformation into something that can fly, is the reason I am called a butterfly.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“God has no interest in doing some slick revisions or innovative tweaks in order to make transformation feel measured and safe. Rather, He’s about delivering a sweeping overhaul to your life that will leave nothing untouched and everything transformed. Therefore, the question regarding transformation is whether we’re brave enough to experience the transformation from which we cannot return but cannot miss.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The key to being a good poet is to be able to take an idea, add your perspective and emotions, transform these into words, and masterfully scribe the words in a form that we call poetry.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Time transforms everything.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Hope alone cannot create outcomes
but having hope affects outcomes.
Proceeding with hope
makes more things possible,
may just be what gets you up and out the door,
making anything possible at all.

But hope is an illusion, no?
Yes, my love,
but no more than fear and worry.
They are all illusions because they are all about the future,
and we cannot know the future.

But ...
hope is an illusion that opens us up, inspires joy,
reminds us of possibility,
gets us through trial and tribulation more easily
(like singing in the rhythm of a labor-intensive task
makes it easier to keep on going).
Hope
leads us to more, better, greater things--
maybe not the ideal, the fantasy, even the very thing you hope for--
but more, better, greater
than would otherwise be.”
― Shellen Lubin

“...the messy, dead and decaying things of our natural lives, can... if the truth be told, transform into something new and beautiful.”
― AshRawArt