It may win an election. It looks good on a coffee mug. It gives us hope for better results. But what does change really mean to you and me? Some say we don’t mind change but we don’t want to be changed. It’s perhaps easier to point to large events in our lives as change but we are constantly changing.
Change is inevitable, the only constant is change, we’ve heard it our whole lives. But how often do we let external forces create the change rather than knowing we have more control than we allow?
Despite the effort of our conscious minds – thinking, hoping, fretting, and trying – our subconscious only measures our actions and pulls us back into our (often not so comfortable) comfort zone.
Some other thoughts on the topic.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
You can do anything you choose to do.
Maya Angelou
When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
When in doubt, choose change.
Lily Leung
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?
Esmeralda Santiago
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Japanese Proverb
You have to speak your dream out loud.
Kelly Corrigan
Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly
The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it,
move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
No heart has suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is,
I believe in tomorrow and I will be a part of it.
Linda Ellerbee
If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers.
Deepak Chopra
People underestimate their capacity for change.
There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.
John Porter
To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
To mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
When you're trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact you're even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.
Alice Domar
I still don't know what I was waiting for and my time was running wild.
David Bowie
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