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To
keep our faces toward change and
behave like free spirits in
the presence
of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen
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It
seems necessary to completely shed the
old skin before the
new, brighter, stronger,
more beautiful one can emerge. . . .
I
never thought
I'd be getting a life lesson from a snake.
Julie
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In spite of
illness,
in spite even of the
archenemy sorrow,
one can remain alive
long past the usual
date of disintegration
if one is unafraid
of change, insatiable in intellectual
curiosity,
interested in big things,
and happy in small ways.
Edith
Wharton
Happy
are they who learn to bear
what they cannot change.
J.C.F.
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Changes
are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them
is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail
Sheehy |
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Many
people look upon change with dread and foreboding.
But for those on the spiritual path—for those who believe in God
and the power of prayer—change is a fuller expression of life.
When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a
change,
rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has
closed
on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened
on new and more interesting things.
Emmet
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Why
should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place
without it?
What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal Nature?
Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change?
Can you eat, without the food undergoing a change? And can
anything
useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to
change
is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal Nature?
Marcus
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If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold onto.
Tao Te Ching |
We cannot change anything
unless we accept it.
Carl Jung |
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Consistency
is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous
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It’s
been said that one reason people eventually stop growing and
learning
is they become less willing to risk failure by trying new ideas or
experiences.
Change can be difficult and uncomfortable.
But if our ambitions are only
to avoid the discomforts of life, we could soon find we have very
little life at all.
God wants us to have the most joyful, fulfilling life
possible, and sometimes
that requires stepping out into the unknown.
Is there a new experience or idea
you’ve been hesitant to pursue?
You’ll never know until you try.
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If
you can’t change everything all at once, then at least work on
changing
something each day.
Become aggressive in your battle with the ego.
You probably don’t need all the things that it wants.
You need hope,
discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity—these are
the important
things.
Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone
will lead you to the next.
But you will rarely see the whole journey
or all the answers at once.
Stuart Wilde |
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We have a hunch that it is possible to live a
better, more balanced, and less stressful life,
but many of us firmly believe that we don’t have the time or
energy to make the necessary
changes, even though perhaps just one small change could
significantly reduce our stress levels.
Instead of striving for attainable incremental changes, we
sometimes complain as if our lives
are completely out of our hands!
Gary Egebert |
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Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.
Carlos Castaneda |
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Just because everything is different doesn’t
mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter |
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We
believe we can change things according to our wishes
because that’s the only happy solution we can see. We don’t think of what usually happens and what is also a
happy solution: things
don’t change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel
Proust |
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As
changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work
out
for my good—if I can just wait on God to see me through.
What makes all
the difference is trust—the understanding that God has a much
bigger plan
than mine even if I don’t understand it.
I’m grateful, yet sorry, that I have
had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.
Kathy Troccoli |
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Just
when summer gets perfect—fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes,
crushingly full
and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends—it
ends.
Life is like that too.
Just when we get it right, it starts to change.
The job gets easy and we know just how to do it,
and they tell us we’re retired.
The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave
home,
just when it’s nice to have them around . . . . That’s life on
the edge of autumn.
And that’s beautiful—if we have the humility for it.
Joan Chittister |
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In our instinctive attachments, our fear of
change, and our wish for certainty
and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is
our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity.
Without impermanence,
there is no process. The nature of life is change. All
hope is based on process.
Rachel
Naomi Remen |
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"Sweep
me up and send me where you please." For there I will
retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and
act
in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough
reason
for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become
depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover
any reasons for this?
Marcus
Aurelius |
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Live
for today but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate
the future
and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in
every event, every circumstance, every unpleasant situation
in which you may find yourself.
Barbara
Johnson |
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Don't
ever believe that you are going to be peaceful--life is not like
that.
When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep
adjusting
to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing
new
obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are
involved in the process
of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed!
You're gone! But what
a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is
new. Every face is new.
Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life.
Stop seeing it as a drag!
Leo
Buscaglia |
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Change
and growth take place when a person has
risked him or herself and dares to become involved
with experimenting with his or her own life.
Herbert Otto |
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What
people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those
things that are essential for their survival.
They need to convert facts
into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision.
They need
to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.
Norman
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We need changes from the duties and the cares of
our accustomed everyday life.
They are necessary for healthy, normal living.
We need occasionally to be away
from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate
households.
Such changes are good for us; they are good for them.
We appreciate them better,
they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.
Ralph Waldo
Trine |
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