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Welcome the conquering Hero -
and recognize that the Hero is... ourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger and Danger are intimately intertwined.
An angry person is a dangerous person,
whether that person crosses our path
or whether the angry person is ourself.
To complete the anger/danger cycle,
whenever we feel threatened -
when we believe we are in danger -
we tend to exhibit anger as well as fear.
We look for someone to blame for the dangerous situation,
and direct our anger toward them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change. I drive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Welcome the Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
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I will greet this day with love in my heart.
And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again.
I will love the sun for it warms my bones;
yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.
I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart;
yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.
I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
- Og Mandino
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Change comes from within.
- Anonymous
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
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