Drew Barrymore Quotes

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

My life has been about big changes.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

People do change.

Everyone can change.

I'm passionate about transformation.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.