We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph CampbellTag: life change open-mind open-heart resilience
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again.
Laura J. BurnsTag: change
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack ObamaTag: inspirational change
We are the change we have been waiting for.
Barack ObamaTag: carpe-diem change
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
SocratesTag: change self-determination self-development
Bending beats breaking.
Betty GreeneTag: inspirational change
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiTag: inspirational philosophy change action misattributed-to-gandhi wish
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
RumiTag: change balance growth presence the-middle-way
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.
Helen ExleyTag: life reading books inspiration change thought-provoking
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.
Herbert ReadTag: peace integrity change community choices circles
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