"The sage's indifference corresponds to a complete transformation of his relation to the world."

-- Pierre Hadot

"Wherever the great dilemma exists is where the growth is, too."

-- Anne Lamott

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes transformation."

-- Krishnamurti

"It i far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

"And the simple, astounding, mind boggling, amazing fact is that as soon as you accept yourself exactly as you are, all those character flaws begin to fall away because those 'flaws' have their only existence in nonacceptance, in self-hate."

-- Cheri Huber

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

-- Oprah Winfrey

"The greatest epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptise our evil qualities as our best qualities."

-- Nietzsche

"Transformation arises from a willingness that develops very slowly over time to be what life asks of us."

-- Charlotte Jodo Beck

"Humor is the high road into and through transformation."

-- W. Brugh Joy

"We must turn the fires of hell into the fires of heaven, let our symptoms turn to grace."

-- Michael Murphy

"The infinite seductions of love's domain have, as their one desire, the transformation of the overwhelmingly obvious into the unbelievably startling."

-- Michael Salsta

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."

-- Henri Nouwen

"To grasp God in all things -- this is the sign of your new birth."

-- Meister Eckhart

"If you have never truly embarrassed yourself by what you had to say about yourself, you don't know shit from shinola about transformation."

-- Brad Blanton

"There are only three ways to change the trajectory of our lives: crisis, chance, and choice."

-- Sara Ban Breathnach

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it."

-- John Ruskin

"There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."

-- Emerson

"When you face your discomfort, you open the door to personal transformation."

-- Maria Nemeth

"Through sustained attention, and thus acceptance, there comes transmutation."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it."

-- Henry Miller