Transformation Quotes

"Making peace with food requires that you transition from a place of fear to a place of love."

- Dr. Anita Johnston

"Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful."

- William Stafford

"I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again."

- María Virginia Farinango

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

- James A. Garfield

"The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith, and to become one's own person, utterly and completely."

- George Sheehan

"The person who starts the race is not the same person who finishes the race."

- Marathon spectator sign

"I dare you to train for a marathon and not have it change your life."

- Susan Sidoriak

"I dare you to train for a marathon, and not have it change your life."

- Susan Sidoriak

"To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"True change is within; leave the outside as it is."

- Dalai Lama

"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."

- Ann Voskamp

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

- Edvard Munch

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

- Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

"Make peace with the mirror, and watch your reflection change."

"You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it’s easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again."

- Anonymous

"Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!"

- Unknown

"Here’s to embracing the unknown and turning it into something extraordinary in 2025."

"Igne natura renovatur integra."

"No longer now I dwell earth bound; resurrected, heaven crowned."

"Metempsychosis now complete, my soul regains its rightful place."

"Departed now from realms of night, awakened here in endless light."

"Clothed now in divine immortal flesh awaken from this dream called death."

"The eternal soul, once shrouded, sheds earthly cloak for infinity."

"Now I exchange earthly robe for raiment ethereal beyond mortal eroding."

"Shadows of this life give way to heaven’s effulgence streaming all around."

"I step into more spacious views, earth falls to shadow; spirit skyward flies."

"As darkness yields to dawn, so too mortality surrenders now to heaven’s reign."

"Now clothed with sacred fire not all earth’s waters could extinguish, I ascend on wings of light."

"Transformation isnt easy, but January reminds us that every step forward counts."