The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Author: Charles Dubois
The most powerful agent of growth
and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change
of heart.
Author: John Welwood
The greatest revolution in our
generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes
of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Author: Marilyn Ferguson
The bottom line is that (a) people
are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that
the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect
love.
Author: Tom Robbins
The future is not a result
of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that
is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The
paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes
both the maker and the destination.
Author: John Schaar
The
lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds
of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and
underneath" man, except man himself.
Author: Lord Byron
The man who looks for
security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in
order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Author: Henry Miller
The moment you have in
your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the
delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is
transformed.
Author: I. Krishnamurti
The
only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
The only man I know who
behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he
sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit
them.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
We spend our time searching
for security and hate it when we get it.
Author: John Steinbeck
We want the facts to fit
the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than
to change the preconceptions.
Author: Jessamyn West
Weep not that the world
changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
What is required for effective
change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient
thought patterns from the past.
Author: Doc Childre
When you are through changing,
you are through.
Author: Bruce Barton
When you blame others,
you give up your power to change.
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony
When you jump for joy,
beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Author: Stanislaw Lec
Whosoever wishes to know
about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
Author: Heraklietos of Ephesos
Without accepting the
fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately,
although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot
accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Author: Shunryu Suzuki
You cannot step twice
into the same river, for other waters are constantly flowing on.
Author: Hera us
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