The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for read more
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that read more
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. -James Hillman.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
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Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
[Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco;
Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. read more
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost (1874-1963).
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance read more
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is read more
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while read more
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
