Quotes About Change

In an ideal world everyone would ask "Who am I?" every day, and since "I" is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer.

Genes are not the fixed, stable, immovable entities I was taught about; they are fluid and dynamic, and their activities are altered by every experience, thought, word, and action in a person's life. So, why not direct your experience to influence your genes in the most positive ways?

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

Puedes calcular la adaptabilidad de una persona observando su capacidad para dejarlo pasar, ser flexible y tomárselo con calma cuando se enfrenta a dificultades. Del mismo modo, puedes saber que las personas se adaptan mal cuando el predominio de las viejas costumbres y el condicionamiento las mantienen estancadas.

Ya sea que lamentes algo de tu pasado o te preocupes por algo del futuro, estás provocando cambios en tu cuerpo. En otras palabras, pasas gran parte de tu vida metabolizando tiempo. (...)¿qué pasaría si no tuvieras una historia? Tu vida sería mucho más simple y más natural. No tendrías una imagen pública que defender. No tendrías miedo del mañana porque sin una historia que seguir aceptarías cualquier experiencia y la dejarías ir.

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Balance is flexibility in the face of change; perfect balance is perfect flexibility in the face of constant change.

genes are not clones. At age seventy their genetic profile will be completely different.

You are in a position, starting now, to adopt the role of self-healer. By going deeper into the power of awareness, you can activate the hidden potential of the healing system that you already depend upon every day. We hope this all sounds exciting, because some major life changes lie ahead.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

What makes it all possible is raising your awareness. What you aren't aware of you can't change.

I'm a process" sounds strange to most people, but let's examine the science that supports this answer.

A simple shift of attention is all you need.

The scenery changes, the seer remains the same. Your body is just the place your memories call home.

That's what had changed when he jumped into the abyss. He exchanged illusion for truth. He felt purified, and yet some part of him couldn't rejoice in it. What would it be like to be the only man who wasn't afraid?

1. Dukkha Life is unsatisfactory. Pleasure in the physical world is transient. Pain inevitably follows. Therefore, nothing we experience can be deeply satisfying. There is no resting place in change.

Look at the forest," Buddha replied. "We walk through it every day and believe it to be the same forest. But not a single leaf is the same as yesterday. Every particle of soil, every plant and animal, is constantly changing. You cannot be enlightened as the separate person you see yourself to be because that person has already disappeared, along with everything else from yesterday.

Baby, that damn pendulum has already swung.

Yeah, I have a burning issue all right, Dr Weinburger. I wish someone would tell me why it is, with Allie gone and the father count reduced by one, that I can't be Daddy to my little girl anymore.

You know, Rebecca," he says, rising to his feet, "never thought there'd be anything good about this weekend. But you've managed to change that.

The implementation of liberty/freedom, as Robert Hayden, the U.S. poet laureate in the 1970s, put it, has been the "way we journeyed from Can't to Can.

The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.

The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession of 2007–2009, unpleasant though it was. Now it's over. The big story is that the Chinese in 1978 and then the Indians in 1991 began to adopt liberal ideas in their economies, and came to welcome creative destruction.