The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.
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Quotes tagged ‘Change’
Figure out what you most need to heal within yourself by seeing what you most want to change in others.
Critically evaluating your life is supposed to facilitate living it, not the other way around.
The Universe whispers until it screams.
Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.
We are literally incapable of predicting an outcome that is out of the realm of what we've known previously. Rather than trying to seek 'better,' we seek 'the best of what we've known,' even if 'the best' is really just the solution to a problem we didn't need to create again.
Everything in your life does one of three things: shows you to yourself, heals a part of yourself or lets you enjoy a part of yourself.
If you really believed you didn't have control over something, you'd accept it as a matter of fact. What do you struggle to accept that you have 'no control' over? What part of you makes you think or hope otherwise?
Let your idea of yourself evolve.
When you're lost, you're also free.
When you have something more important to work toward, the obsession with little, made-up problems will quickly dissolve.
Imagine speaking with your oldest, wisest, most optimal future self. What you're doing is tapping deep into your subconscious. Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.
If it's what you really want, it will give you a feeling of 'yes.' Trust your 'yes' feelings.
Do not live in the grey area when answers are available.
Nothing is 'scary' to us unless some part of us also wants to understand it, knows we are a part of it, and feels as though it will become part of our experience.
Hunger is important. People don't thrive when they're fulfilled. They stagnate.
If you're wondering what you should do with your life, it's likely that you're in the limbo between realizing you don't want what you once did and giving yourself permission to want what you want now.
Do you know why you don't have the things you once thought you wanted? Do you know why you're not the person you once thought you'd be? Because you don't want those things anymore. Not badly enough. If you did, you'd have and be them.
You owe nothing to your younger self. You are not responsible for the person you once thought you'd be.
Defensiveness never precedes growth.