Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

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

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

I am going through changes

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

You must change your life.

I'm passionate about transformation.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

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

Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.