Change - Quotes
The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.
It isn`t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It`s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
If motherhood has taught me anything, it is that I cannot change my children, I can only change myself. Try as I might, I can’t shape either one of them to my desires or designs, but I can choose, moment by moment and day by day, my own reaction to who they are. So perhaps my real job now, and in the year ahead, isn’t to direct my sons’ lives, but to work on becoming more thoughtful and deliberate about my own.
If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out. Of course we must be willing to change our minds when warranted by new evidence. But the evidence must be strong.
- What makes the sky change colour when the sun reaches the horizon?
- If we tried to explain everything, we wouldn`t be able to live.
You can`t change who your parents are. The only thing you can change is how you choose to deal with them.
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
The important thing is to make some sort of difference [...] You know, actually change something. [...] Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it`s like chasing clouds.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.