Top 100 Self Transformation Quotes
#1. Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
Laozi
#2. yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce
Mark Stephens
#3. The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.
Nhat Hanh
#4. Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.
Michael W. Ford
#5. Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
Lewis Mumford
#6. The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.
Erich Fromm
#9. Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.
Caroline Knapp
#10. My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.
Osho
#11. I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
Susan Sontag
#12. Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
#13. Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.
Cyndi Lee
#14. Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.
Robert Grudin
#15. Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
Bernie S. Siegel
#16. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#17. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Marshall McLuhan
#18. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.
Ilchi Lee
#19. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
Siri Hustvedt
#20. The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends ... then self mastery can be sought.
Laozi
#21. To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
Cameron Conaway
#23. One day, you would see,
You have dropped your attire,
The dirt you are carrying on your shoulder
And your entire self!
Sayantan Sen
#25. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
#26. Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.
Auliq Ice
#27. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12
Victoria Lorient-Faibish
#28. For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.
Ken Wilber
#29. Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness,
Caroline Myss
#31. Self-improvement can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.
Pema Chodron
#33. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Nirmala Srivastava
#34. Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.
Balroop Singh
#35. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie Smith
#36. Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction.
Brett Blumenthal
#39. A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
Edmund Phelps
#40. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Success Mindset because ... Whatever you create in your imagination and dreams, will require the right mindset to manifest in reality.
Tony Dovale
#41. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
#42. My job as a Mind Body Spirit Coach is not to 'fix' people, it is to 'break' them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built slightly differently given a little time and patience.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#43. When you feel hopeless, wait, a transformation of self is on the horizon.
Janet Homes
#44. But to navigate transformation - genuine transformation that's true to exactly who we are - we must become mindful and attain a clear sense of self. We must take time to be alone with our thoughts and feelings. We must dive into daily practices that help us gather insight, wisdom, and clarity.
Jennifer Grace
#45. When we stop thinking primarily about ourselves, of our wants, our image and our own self-preservation, we undergo a transformation of truly heroic proportions.
Jose N. Harris
#46. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#47. On the journey of spiritual transformation, you want to lose your baggage. In fact, you want to make sure all of it is lost, so that when you reach the end of this road, you have nothing left to cover your Self up with.
Derek Rydall
#48. When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.
Kamand Kojouri
#49. At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.
Anne Ursu
#50. There" is not your dream, "here" is..
To create it, to become it and to live in it. The journey of your triumphs and setbacks are apart of the process now,stop getting ready to get ready and start living in the essence of your movements NOW.
Nikki Rowe
#51. The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.
Stacie Hammond
#52. Self-acceptance is self-love in action.
Jodi Livon
#53. Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.
Nancy Mellon
#55. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#56. Positive simply means unifying energies, while negative simply means separating energies. It's not about what's good or bad, right or wrong. It's about
embracing what feels good and brings us closer to peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#57. The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
Sri Aurobindo
#58. Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.
Gary Hopkins
#59. You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.
Marianne Williamson
#60. Treat me as I am,
and that I shall remain.
Treat me as I wish to be,
and that I shall become.
Karl Schmidt
#61. Finally, this book has the potential to radically alter your understanding of who you really are - your high calling as one of the "sons of God.
David C. Alves
#62. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
Sharon Salzberg
#63. The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves
Melanie Greenberg
#64. Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
Paulo Coelho
#65. Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.
Auliq Ice
#66. I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
Anais Nin
#67. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.
Michael A. Singer
#68. Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.
Idowu Koyenikan
#69. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
Cordelia Fine
#70. Principle of Change #5: Without proper action, change cannot occur.
Brett Blumenthal
#71. Every spoken sentence beginning with 'I Am' is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.
Dacha Avelin
#72. To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world - an ability denied to any other physical being.
Kenan Malik
#74. The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.
Zeena Schreck
#75. In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.
Julie Reisler
#76. Principle of Change #6: Change is an ever-evolving process.
Brett Blumenthal
#77. When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.
Stephen Richards
#78. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
Alaric Hutchinson
#79. The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
Audre Lorde
#80. Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
Peter Shepherd
#82. Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.
Brett Blumenthal
#83. The healing that comes with self-acceptance rippled through my life. As I embraced my carefree nature, I began living from my truth, and watched as the pure expression of who I am and the love I bring to the world illuminated my life.
Shelley Lundquist
#84. The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
Jean Houston
#85. Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#87. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#89. If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#90. Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#91. Success doesn't happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#92. There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.
Julie Reisler
#93. Almost by force of habit, successful people simply do more. As a result, they experience not only greater financial rewards for their extra efforts but also a personal transformation, becoming more self-confident, more self-reliant, and more influential with those around them.
Jack Canfield
#94. If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#96. As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.
Miranda J. Barrett
#98. Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.
Alison Bechdel
#99. The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious with this purpose, that much peace and happiness we can experience
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#100. Transformation is something that obsesses me. What is the soul? Is there a difference between something like a soul and something like a self? Is our identity something we construct, or is it organic and natural? There are all kinds of theories.
Christopher Barzak
