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Quotes About Change

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~ Three Initiates
Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations....
~ Three Initiates
Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates
~ Three Initiates
Being uncomfortable is good, beta. It's in discomfort that growth happens.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Because traditions are like eggs—once you break one, it is impossible to put it back inside its shell.
~ Thrity Umrigar
We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely
~ Thrity Umrigar
Look to the future, child," her father used to say. "This is why our feet point forward, not back.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Peter was a birthday party, all candles and cake and balloons. Now the party was over. Sudhir was the rest of the year, the real deal, the place where she'd built her nest. What she and Sudhir had constructed together, someone like Peter could only dream about. If he was even smart enough to realize and envy them what they had, that is. Which she somehow doubted he was.
~ Thrity Umrigar
What she and Serabai had built together, Viraf has destroyed. Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.
~ Thubten Chodron
You can't determine for yourself the way things should be. Things change by their very nature. How can you tie down any idea? You can see that you can't.
~ Thubten Yeshe
This time it is different. Today I have sought a spiritual teacher, I have read the sutras, and as a result I have now recognized the enemy!" It has been stated: The old days when you could Ruin me at will are now gone; I can see you now, so where are you off to? I shall tear down your arrogance.197
~ Thupten Jinpa
Observe the defects of a householder's life and return soon." When the prince heard
~ Thupten Jinpa
metanoesis—from
~ Thupten Jinpa
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
~ Thurgood Marshall
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
~ Thurston Moore
Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.
~ Thylias Moss
Teen girls rearrange the fucking world.
~ Tia Williams
The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.
~ Tia Williams
She'd hoped he'd be her forever guy. She was so tired of starting over with a new man every couple years, only to be abandoned for unspecified reasons. When bad things happened over and over, it was a sign. God was telling you to change. Your attitude, your hair, your address.
~ Tia Williams
Lizette didn't lay eyes on Audre till she was two. It was cruel. She hadn't raised her daughter to have such ghastly manners. But in the end, maybe Genevieve had been right to sever ties. Genevieve was Eva now, and she and Audre were both thriving. Everything turns out the way it oughta, she thought.
~ Tia Williams
Over the years, during lazy daydreams, she'd sometimes allowed herself to fantasize about running into him. But in her thoughts, they'd still been kids. She couldn't imagine them relating to each other as adults. Whatever Shane sparked in her, she'd thought she'd outgrown. But they weren't who they used to be. They were better.
~ Tia Williams
History doesn't repeat itself," said Shane. "But it rhymes." "Who said that? Nas?" "Mark Twain.
~ Tia Williams
When bad things happened over and over, it was a sign. God was telling you to change. Your attitude, your hair, your address.
~ Tia Williams