Transformation Quotes

"It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."

- Miles Davis

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

- Lao Tzu

"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often."

- Winston Churchill

"Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice."

- Heather Ash Amara

"Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level."

- T.D. Jakes

"I used to rap for cool points, now I rap for selling points."

- Kanye West

"We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves."

- Biggie Smalls

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"“You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”"

- Trina Paulus

"Through adoption, Americans can forever change not only a child’s life but also their own."

- George W. Bush

"We do not need to know the beginning of a child’s story to change the ending."

- Fi Newood

"While adoption does not undo the past, adopting a child, and more specifically an older child, gives an adoptive family the privilege of writing the parts of the child’s story that have not yet been written."

- Caitlin Snyder

"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in the broken world."

- Katie J. Davis

"Hello is a beginning, and so is goodbye. Goodbye is like a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly."

- Refiloe Moahloli

"And once the storm is over you won’t remember you how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold."

- Billie Holiday

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before."

- Rajneesh

"The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness."

- William Shakespeare

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

- Steve Jobs

"That’s the gratifying part of jiu jitsu, is to watch the people and see how they change for better. Very few people change for worse."

- Fabio Santos

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

- Buckminster Fuller

"You have to break down before you can breakthrough."

- Marilyn Ferguson

"He became what we are that He might make us what He is."

- St. Athanasius

"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

- Jim Morrison

"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."

- Virgil A. Kraft

"A Hawaiian sunset is a moment of pure magic, where time stands still and the soul takes flight."

"The world may not change if you adopt a child, but for that child their world will change."

"The beauty of adoption is in the hearts that are opened and the lives that are changed forever."

- Unknown

"Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away."

"Good morning! Today is a new day. Let go of whatever is holding you back and embrace what’s ahead."

- Unknown