We Change. Quotes

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

It comes from within.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.