Change and Transformation

We are all born originals. Why is it so many of us die copies?

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.

You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

You can never plan the future by the past.

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Change your thoughts and you Change your world.

Look at frustration as a positive thing. It is the frustration that drives you to improve.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Is the oak better than the acorn which is its fullness and completion?

Let us become the change we seek in this world.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.