Christopher Windus

Maybe Every Change Is Exactly As Beautiful As We Let It Be

Heidi Priebe
February 1, 2017
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin
Tagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change, Uncertainty, Leaning Into Uncertainty
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol In His Own Words
Tagged: Change, People, Human Nature, Changing Someone
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Change, Power, Control, Self-Direction, Inspirational
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Mindset, Perspective, Change
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
— Tony Schwartz, Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy (2011) Paperback
Tagged: Certainty, Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Learning, Growth
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can take ourselves along — quite gracefully.”
— Ellen Goodman, Ellen Goodman's last column: looking backward, looking forward
Tagged: Leaving, Retiring, Moving On, Moving Forward, Life, Change
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win. Life is self-correcting.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Life, Choices, Win-Win, Growth, Personal Growth, Challenges, Change, Overcoming Obstacles
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Choices, Change, The future, Decisions, Self-Direction
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing
Tagged: Pain, Change, Making Change, Choices, Decisions, Moving Forward, Self-Direction, Personal Growth
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra, deepakchopra.com
Tagged: Change, Chaos, Self-Direction, Accepting Change
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
— Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
Tagged: Change, History, Opression, Women, strength, Courage, feminism
“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Change, Decisions, Moving On, Life
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man: A Novel
Tagged: Letting Go, Holding On, Change
“Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Change, Growth, Personal Development, Comfort, Discomfort
“The Universe whispers until it screams.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Change, Growth, The Universe
“The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Change, Self-Development, Self-Concept, Growth, Personal Growth
“Your 20s are about undoing as much as they are anything else. Choosing new. Deciding otherwise. Shedding layers that have muddied your idea of who you think you are. This is the kind of scary magic you want.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: 20s, Your 20s, Change, Growth, Development, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, Starting Over, quarter life crisis
“All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.”
— Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving
Tagged: Change, Starting Over, Taking Chances
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
— Neil Gaiman, My New Year Wish
Tagged: New Year, Making Mistakes, Mistakes, Change, Starting Over
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.”
— Osho, Osho Quotes
Tagged: Past, Moving On, Moving Forward, Change, The Past
“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”
— Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be
Tagged: Change, Moving Forward, Taking Chances, Moving On
“You want everything to stay the same until you’re ready for it to change. But you can’t do that. You can’t expect the whole world to stand still until you’re ready.”
— Gayle Friesen, Losing Forever
Tagged: Change, Moving On, Standing Still, Being Stuck
“every now and then, you will feel a dull ache
in your soul.
a gentle humming around your
heart. a longing for something without a name.
if i ever told you to obey anything,
this would be it.”
— Mia Hollow, Mia Hollow Tumblr
Tagged: Intuition, Life, Change, Following Your Heart
“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”
— Bill Hicks, 21 Revolutionary Quotes From Bill Hicks
Tagged: Evolution, Growth, Change, Mankind
“It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tunnel, the night,
the pain, the love.
It ends or it doesn't.
If the sun never comes up,
you find a way to live
without it.
If they don’t come back,
you sleep in the middle of the bed,
learn how to make enough coffee
for yourself alone.”
— Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends Or It Doesn't
Tagged: Love, Endings, Change, Poetry