I have a huge collection of yellow stickies – on my fridge, in my purse and car. Today I’ve put them all well some of them here.
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”
Caroline Myss
“Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.”
Debbie Ford
“And finally the day will come when the risk it takes to remain tight in the bud will be more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.”
Anais Nin
“Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.”
Chérie Carter-Scott
“The closer we get to uncovering ourselves, the more difficult it becomes to face the truth. Sooner or later we stop running, out of sheer exhaustion and desperation, and turn around to face our image. The pain that we go through during this revelation is negligible compared to the state of grace that we enter into when we have finally moved on.”
Dr. Christiane Northrup
“Always go with the choice that scares you the most,
because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. ”
Caroline Myss
“When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves,
or when we intentionally create pain for others,
we poison our own physical and spiritual systems.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit
is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.
It disables a person’s emotional resources.
The challenge is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves
and to develop the power of forgiveness. ”
Caroline Myss
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Karen,
‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’
This is my favorite from your bunch. Is it from Einstein?
Change always appears scary to me; I want that security blanket wrapping around me as I face each day. But to grow, to continue to exercise the mind, body and soul, one must be “adventurous” and welcome the new and “exciting.”
Can our hearts absorb such infusion?
Michael J
Good morning Michael, actually Alan Cohen wrote this in one of his Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Change for me used to be very scary – now I welcome it. Perhaps because I don’t see it as something being taken away from me.
Is it perhaps because change is so scary to us, so “comfortable”, that we’d rather be miserable than risk the unknown, step out of our comfort zone? Well, it seems that is exactly what lots of people do. I did it for years!
One of my favorite Einstein quotes is about the definition of insanity – to continue doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. So, why do we do it? I asked myself many times why am I doing this, why am I willing to accept this, why am I “content” to stay mired in the muck rather than reaching for some new, unknown and possibly fabulous new life?
Do you suppose that by acknowledging that all of Life is about change, we could maybe even come to love change? I believe that the more we embrace it, the more our lives grow into what they were meant to be: fulfilling adventures that keep us young, that inspire us to expand, that make us better human beings. Change comes in many forms and for those who embrace it, they often find that their lives are so much more meaningful after the fact. They find that once the change has been faced, it was really pretty easy. Because after we face our proverbial demons, we find that they were no more real than the boogie man under the bed was when we were kids. We find that the only boogie man was the one we made up in our heads. We find that this new place we’ve arrived in is so much better than where we were before. And suddenly change is not such a scary thing after all.
It’s worked for me! Change is a good thing Michael if you look at with new eyes. All the best – Karen.