So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Tags: beauty struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe the old cliché "God helps those who help themselves" is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself. —Catherine Marshall More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling. —Robert Fulghum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change — as though it had some virtue of its own. "Change or we will die." "Change or we will stagnate." Evergreens don't stagnate. —Judith Rossner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in all those assumptions underlining our lives. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He liked to reorganize and change things for the sake of change, to make a fine gesture. He destroyed the old before he had clearly thought out the new. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: progress distance process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every positive change — every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness — involves a rite of passage. Each time, to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. —Dan Millman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Tags: weakness fight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most supercolossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: life time preciousness ingenuity babies newborns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. —Alan Watts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: skill faith mountains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom. —Jennifer Stone More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email