Quotations

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. - Unknown

Change in all things is sweet. - Aristotle

Life itself is the proper binge.  - Julia Child

A strong oak is just a nut that stood fast. - Unknown

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. - Tuli Kupferberg 

Learn from yesterday. 
Live for today. 
Hope for tomorrow.  - Unknown

Change yourself, change your fortunes. – Portuguese proverb 

Life is change. 

Growth is optional. 

Choose wisely.  - Karen Kaiser Clark

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. - John Wooden 

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.  - Author unknown

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.  - Abraham Lincoln

First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.  - Epictetus

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. - Unknown

Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.  - Tao Te Ching

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.   - Anthony J DÁngelo

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.  - Maria Robinson

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. 
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.   - Indian saying

Too much sanity may be madness. 
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!  - Miguel de Cervantes 

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.  - Andy Law

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. 
It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. 
Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. - Florida Scott - Maxwell

Time is the coin of your life. 
It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. 
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.   - Carl Sandburg

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. 
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.  - Saint Francis de Sales

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,” Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?”  
Muste replied, “Oh, I don’t do it to change the country, I do it so the country won’t change me.”

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.  - Nelson Mandela