Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
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.
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.