Transformation Quotes

"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking."

- Deepak Chopra

"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."

- Ralph Ellison

"Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat..."

- Nicholas Gordon

"Failure is the caterpillar. Success is the butterfly."

- Peta Kelly

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

- William James

"Sometimes, you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"The black wolf's curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky."

- Pet Torres

"When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything."

- Harriet Tubman

"Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door."

- Alicia Keys

"My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life."

- Viola Davis

"You hand us the fatback of a pig and we use it to make savory greens. You hand us a fledgling radio station and we turn it into a media empire ... We are alchemists. So our ability to transform our lived experience—even the ones plagued by trauma—is the very reason why we should internalize our acceptance and release ourselves from any obligation to be something other than who we are, individually and collectively."

- Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

"As black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences — experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point."

- Viola Davis

"We must be willing to get rid of the life weve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"Make way for the unprecedented and watch your reality rearrange yourself."

- Yrsa Daley-Ward

"Children reinvent your world for you."

- Susan Sarandon

"When a woman is pregnant she becomes a lioness with the will of a dragon. She becomes a goddess of beauty with the colors of the rainbow. She becomes the mother of new life."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"The shell must break before the bird can fly"

- Alfred Tennyson

"The Enchanted Forest will bring transformation."

- Olaf

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

- Marcel Proust

"Heartbreak may hurt now, but it opens the door to personal transformation."

"Baptism is an outward testimony of an inward transformation. It’s the first step of obedience for a disciple of Christ."

"There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were."

"To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one."

"We don't change the message. The message changes us."

"Every January is a fresh chapter in our continuous journey of transformation."

"Embrace the new, and let go of the past—January is the time to transform."

"Transformation is the essence of January, where new paths begin to unfold."

"January: the month to let go of fear and embrace transformation."

"The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people."

"Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day."

- Unknown