Quotes About Change

Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. —

I believe he doesn't regret it. But still, has being with me stopped him from being him?

Adjectives have become verbs: I favorited it. Verbs have become nouns. How many likes do you have? Time is moving at such an accelerated rate that completing sentences now seems baroque.

One afternoon I opened an email from her that included a passage from the work of Pema Chodron, a Buddhist teacher and writer whom I had long admired. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

Would it always matter? Lines from a Delmore Schwartz poem come to mind: "What am I now that I was then? / May memory restore again and again / The smallest color of the smallest

morning was true will by evening have become a lie.

He's been reading James Gleick, and repeats a passage to Ben by heart. "If only time could be seen whole, then you could see the past remaining intact, instead of vanishing in the rearview mirror.

I clung to the only story I could tolerate.

course, if you haven't received

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me." —THE BAAL SHEM TOV

He isn't trying to transform himself into something different; he's trying to transform someone different back into himself.

ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

quel guillochis oeuvre par la providence que la vie de l'homme! par combien de voies secretes et contraires les circonstances diverses ne precipitent-elles pas nos affections! aujourd'hui nous aimons ce que demain nous hairons,aujourd'hui nous recherchons ce que nous fuirons demain,aujourd'hui nous desirons ce que demain nous fera peur...

And by what secret differing springs are the affections hurried about, as differing circumstances present! To-day we love what to-morrow we hate- to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun- to-day we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

Hoy amamos lo que mañana odiaremos. Hoy buscamos lo que mañana rehuiremos. Hoy deseamos lo que mañana nos asustará e, incluso, nos hará temblar de miedo.

Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.

Quanto dovrebbe riflettere chi si lagna della propria condizione e la confronta con quella degli altri, senza sapere che un giorno il Cielo potrebbe costringerlo a fare il cambio e a riconoscere troppo tardi di aver perduto la felicità!

The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:

It was now that I began sensibly to feel how much more happy this life I now led was, with all its miserable circumstances, than the wicked, cursed, abominable life I led all the past part of my days; and now I changed both my sorrows and my joys; my very desires altered, my affections changed their gusts, and my delights were perfectly new from what they were at my first coming, or, indeed, for the two years past.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

Los indicadores de la autorregulación emocional son, por consiguiente, fáciles de ver: tendencia a reflexionar y a meditar, comodidad ante la ambigüedad y el cambio, y también integridad, es decir, capacidad de reprimir deseos impulsivos.

Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery

It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing "something" wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.

Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si