“It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for…”— Caitlyn Siehl, mixcloud.comTagged: Love, Endings, Change, Poetry
“every now and then, you will feel a dull ache in your soul. a gentle humming around your heart. a longing for something without a name. if i ever told you to obey anything, this would be it.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.comTagged: Intuition, Life, Change, Following Your Heart
“You want everything to stay the same until you’re ready for it to change. But you can’t do that. You can’t expect the whole world to stand still until you’re ready.”— Gayle Friesen, amazon.comTagged: Change, Moving On, Standing Still, Being Stuck
“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”— Bill Hicks, theunboundedspirit.comTagged: Evolution, Growth, Change, Mankind
“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”— Steve Chandler, amazon.comTagged: Change, Moving Forward, Taking Chances, Moving On
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.”— Osho, osho.comTagged: Past, Moving On, Moving Forward, Change, The Past
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Som…”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.comTagged: New Year, Making Mistakes, Mistakes, Change, Starting Over
“All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.”— Kelly Braffet, amazon.comTagged: Change, Starting Over, Taking Chances
“Your 20s are about undoing as much as they are anything else. Choosing new. Deciding otherwise. Shedding layers that have muddied your idea of who you think you are. This is the kind of scary magic you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: 20s, Your 20s, Change, Growth, Development
“The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Self-Development, Self-Concept, Growth
“The Universe whispers until it screams.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Growth, The Universe
“Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Growth, Personal Development, Comfort, Discomfort
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Holding On, Change
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Change, Decisions, Moving On, Life
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.comTagged: Change, History, Opression, Women, strength
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”— Deepak Chopra, deepakchopra.comTagged: Change, Chaos, Self-Direction, Accepting Change
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Change, Making Change, Choices, Decisions
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Choices, Change, The future, Decisions, Self-Direction
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win. Life is self-correcting.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Life, Choices, Win-Win, Growth, Personal Growth
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.comTagged: Leaving, Retiring, Moving On, Moving Forward, Life
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”— Tony Schwartz, amazon.comTagged: Certainty, Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Learning
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Mindset, Perspective, Change
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Change, Power, Control, Self-Direction, Inspirational
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.comTagged: Change, People, Human Nature, Changing Someone
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.comTagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change