Self Transformation Quotes

“You attract what you need like a lover”
― Gertrude Stein

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
― Bernie Siegel

“They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To experience what isn't, love what is.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“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

“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, The Art of Storytelling

“Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Can a person crave to destroy himself and at the same time wish to transmute himself into a fuller being? Is destruction of a central part of us necessary in order to transform ourselves? How do perceptive people fend off their destructive impulses, through insensibility or with greatness of mind? How can an ordinary person such as me, deficient in natural talent and ignorant in the ways of the world, blunt the self-doubt and the fear that nips at my heels? How does a vegetative character such as me express the vivacity of life while counterbalancing the immutable sorrows that accompany our struggles to glean meaning in life? How does anyone function rationally knowing that his or her life will ruefully end with death?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We underestimate the power of choice, our power to suddenly wake up one day bored of our own bullshit and decide to do things differently.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Anxiety can often make us closed off to the world. Taking risks and putting yourself out there can become an insurmountable obstacle. Letting go of our anxiety doesn't just improve our life. It improves the lives of those around us as well.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“We all have these self-constructed personalities and we believe that our likes and dislikes make up a strong part of our personality and who we are. But, we can choose our own likes and dislikes. They don’t have to just be automatic unconscious reactions.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“Once you become aware of all the tactics your mind is using to sabotage your peace and happiness, you can use your conscious mind to reframe your opinions, create new more positive beliefs, and create a new you.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“The issues we often run away from and refuse to address, are the very things that end up transforming our lives when we choose and commit to healing from buried emotional wounds.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

“The past no longer limits me. / I drift on wind and live as free / above the houses, mountains, clouds, / the cities gripped by anxious crowds, / alighting where I will by day / whenever I decide to stay.

(from Now I've Become a Butterfly)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“The greatest gift that one generation bestows on its successors is striving valiantly to make every day of a person’s life count by working to enhance human knowledge and teaching what we learn to willing learners. Every generation of human beings owes a debt of immense gratitude to the forerunning generations who worked to solve problems that bedevil humanity and for exhibiting a profound reverence for all forms of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The goal of pinball is self-transformation, not self-expression.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“[…] he still closes his eyes to the truth, refusing to acknowledge that clinging desperately to the notion of self, desperately wanting not to die, is the surest route to eternal death. On the other hand, the ability to die, to slough off one’s skin like a snake, to commit oneself to incessant self-transformation is what leads the way to immortality.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Without the fervor to taste life’s bewitching fruit and in absence of a keenness to gain personal knowledge gained through exploring, probing, surveillance, and self-scrutiny, I risk apathy, befuddlement, and lethargy overwhelming me.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What does a person do when life crushes them? Is it absurd to want a different life? Alternatively, are personal dreams the only facet of life that we exclusively possess that can sustain us in time of distress?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Do people who love more suffer more? Is love merely a tinted simile for accepting ourselves and unequivocally embracing other people’s ululating heart songs? Is hate the failure to love? Is evil merely the absence of good? Alternatively, is the root of hate and evil more than the lack of love and absence off goodness? Is darkness the absence of light, or does darkness encapsulate its own dynamism? Does the interaction of piousness and sinfulness along with the intermingling of knowledge and ignorance shadow our souls similar to how darkness interferes with light to create shades of opaqueness? What is self-love? Is it important to love oneself? Alternatively, is no self the ultimate test?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is important to apprehend the full gamut of emotions that are available to all thinking, feeling, and compassionate human beings? Does self-love open a person’s gracious heart and mind enabling them generously to love and genially to care for other people? Without self-love, does a person lack the emotional quotient necessary to feel both genuine affection and empathy for our brethren? Must I commence a fundamental transformation of the self by eliminating a toxic dosage of self-hatred? Will newly discovered self-respect place me on the path towards obtaining personal enlightenment? Alternatively, is eliminating any concept of the self the fundamental charter that I must devote all days and nights to achieve?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Do I live out the remainder of my life striving to increase a mental storehouse of intellectual knowledge or by expanding a state of conscious awareness? Should my ultimate goal be to decode all the paradoxes in life or nurture a state of cognitive awareness? Should I strive to develop internal peace, silence, and tranquility? Must I rely upon the intuitive self to reconnect innate root structure and link myself to the essential means of living life deeply? By courageously striving to conquer illicit personal desires, can I develop a state of mirror-like purity of consciousness that allows a person to serve as a gracious and unbiased witness to the surrounding world?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In the forest canopied with the leafy niche of daily events, a benevolent listener reverberates in the canonical poetry of the ages humming irrepressible visceral contradictions. A squall of tears of bereavement pierces the elegiac sea of a silent night. The red-rimmed eye of sunrise greets us with a torrent of rage spilling over from frontlines of an examined life’s vital quarrels. The flute of life ushers in a welcoming breeze of reassuring resonance.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Let the games begin. I shall commence an Olympian contest by attempting to conquer my fiendish ego, slay the warty toad that is destroying a peaceful sanctuary, and endeavor to reach a heightened state of personal awareness. The deepest chamber within commands me to either change or die; I can no longer survive as a loathsome creature that is repugnant to every aspect of humanity and civilization. To do or die, because money does not make a man, no one cares when I die or how much money a person banked. I need to resist the endless commercial propaganda and political doggerel spewed by television and social media sites that encourage stifling conformism in order to advance philistine cultural values. I shall honor this moment of intuitive realization by endeavoring to exterminate the toad that unwittingly governs me before this ghastly beast kills me by spewing its contemptible poison.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Meditation is the inner work of self-reflection and self-transformation through mental, physical, and emotional discipline.”
― Benjamin W. Decker, Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

“Perhaps one of the greatest jokes of my life is that I first went to India to be spiritualized, and I came home humanized.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations

“A Container, I was.
Filled with Ideas, Concepts & Theories.
Full of History, A Promising Future.
And then...
I met my Master.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“Magic can be a lot of things all at once: It’s a tool for making your reality a little bit better. It’s a philosophy for understanding the world we live in. It’s a language through which we can talk to the divine. And it’s a technology for self-transformation and betterment. At different points in your magical practice, you will find that different aspects of magic resonate with you.”
― Sarah Lyons, How to Study Magic: A Guide to History, Lore, and Building Your Own Practice