What Have I Become?

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

To Live Well, Enjoy Today; Take Nothing For Granted

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Change or Die

"A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place,
but a seed to be planted,
and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

~ John Ciardi

You change your life by changing your heart.

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

~ John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

“The great thing is, if one can,
to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.”

~ C.S. Lewis

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

~John Kenneth Galbraith

"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."

~Ellen Glasgow

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

~Harold Wilson

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

~ Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

“People underestimate their capacity for change.
There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.
A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.”

~ John Porter

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

~ Anatole France

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

"Continuity gives us roots;
change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights."

~ Pauline R. Kezer


“Change starts when someone sees the next step.”

On Judgement

"No two men ever judged alike of the same thing,
and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar,
not only in different men but in the same men at different times."

~Michel Montaigne

Do People Ever Change?

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change,
the courage to change the one I can,
and the wisdom to know it's me."

~ Author Unknown

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself
and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

~ Unknown

Sorrow

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not;
and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

~ Kahlil Gibran

On Faith

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." ~ Mohandas Gandhi "To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body." ~ Mohandas Gandhi