The Work reveals that what you think shouldn’t have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn’t mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don’t know how to stop.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty—one moment thinking “perhaps” and the next moment thinking “I don’t know”—will never get desired results.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actress, Dancer, Activist
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
—Henry George (1839–97) American Political Economist, Journalist
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
—Menander (c.343–c.291 BCE) Greek Comic Dramatist, Poet
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
—John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) Sixth President of the USA
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American Romantic Poet, Journalist, Editor
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same…You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.
—Ramsey Clark (1927–2021) American Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
—Frank Herbert (1920–86) American Science Fiction Writer
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
We must become the change we want to see.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
—Spanish Proverb
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
—Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American Novelist Essayist
Always! That is the dreadful word … it is a meaningless word, too.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who as learned to read, humiliate the person who feels pride, and you cannot oppress people who are not afraid anymore.
—Cesar Chavez (1927–93) American Labor Leader
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing… you’re through.
—Unknown
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