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…a beautiful eighty-six year old woman, as we were talking about creating health through change, said gently, ‘Some folks find it easier to die than to make changes.’
from In Search of Healing: Whole-Body Healing Through the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection, by William A McGarey, MD
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
The Daily Guru
The one constant in life is change.
Author unknown
When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.
from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (see other works by Deepak Chopra )
“If you don’t like it, alter it, and if you can’t alter it, put up with it.”
from Sons and Lovers, by DH Lawrence (see other works by DH Lawrence )
One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.
from Shift Happens!, by Robert Holden (see works by Robert Holden )
Every experience in life changes the brain’s anatomy.
from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (see other works by Deepak Chopra )
People change and forget to tell each other.
from Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Leader – see The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas and Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (see other works by and about Gandhi )
Walk toward a new and different world. A new world exists for you just as surely as Venus exists. It is inner, truly spiritual, ruled by Reality. It awaits your discovery. March toward this higher life right now by seeing what it is not. It is not like this world. It has no confusion, no fear of loss, no loneliness, no self-destructive acts. Change yourself and it is your world! Be eager to make this inner change. Years from now you will see it as the wisest decision of your life.
The Daily Guru
“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won’t fall off the tree when they’re ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”
from Women in Love, by DH Lawrence (see other works by DH Lawrence )
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Scientist – see Elective Affinities, Goethe's Faust (Parts 1 and 2) and The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (see other works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
If you feel a pull to make a change or a move, instead of letting the mind consume you with worry or debate, you pray on it, asking “What is my next assignment? Where do my Guides want me to live? Does this action make my soul happy?”
Peace Mother Geeta Sacred Song
When we are no longer able to change a situation… we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search For Meaning (see other works by Viktor Frankl )
We have the power to choose and to exercise that power without giving control of it to situations. We cannot change anything but our own perspective and response, yet in that changing we change the world around us by becoming an instrument of insight and awareness.
Gail Pursell Elliott, author of School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See It – Stop It – Prevent It – With Dignity and Respect (see other works by Gail Pursell Elliott)
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some!, by Stuart Wilde (see other works by Stuart Wilde )
You are today where you want to be, because of the movies you've decided to play in your head.
You can decide right now to change the movie… it's up to you!
The Daily Guru
People will suffer almost anything as long as it means they don't have to change.
Deepak Chopra, from 'Lords of Light' (see works by Deepak Chopra )
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) American author and civil rights activist (see works by and about James Baldwin )
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed is to be a pilgrim.
Mark Nepo
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
Elaine St James (see works by and about Elaine St James )
Gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues–like patience, compassion (for self and others), and perseverance.
Unknown
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don’t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Peter McWilliams, American author (see works by Peter McWilliams )
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can’t happen without us and nobody can do it for us.
Margaret Wheatley
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Saul Alinsky
The world will not change until we do.
Jim Wallis, commentator on ethics and public life
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Cherrie Moraga
If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent.
Thich Nhat Hanh (see works by and about Thich Nhat Hanh )
Change or breakthrough doesn’t always happen through perceived leaders. In fact it rarely does. Ego prevents that. A person who carries the seeds of change may emerge out of the shadows. They may not be known by others as a leader. They might not think of themselves as a leader. But what if they are? Not a leader in the ‘making a speech to hundreds of people’ sense. Not a leader in the ‘being in charge of others’ sense. No. A leader of oneself. Of what you believe in. Of what you stand for. Of what you deeply feel.
What would you do, if you no longer looked to others first?
Remember – just because they are in authority, does not mean that they have authority.
Martin Perry, confidence coach and author of The Confidence Booster Workout
There is a distinction between natural and enforced change. Natural change is something you accept, anticipate, embrace, plan, and manage. Enforced change is an imposition, an event that is unexpectedly thrust upon you.
Do not try and resist natural change, for if you do you may be confronted by enforced change at some point in your life. This is because life itself does not support your avoidance of growth. Life supports you in your thriving and blossoming.
As they say “all resistance is futile”.
Steve Nobel
You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller (see works by and about Buckminster Fuller
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