Konstantin Kryukovskiy

30 Wise Quotes For When You Feel Scared Shitless About Change

Change is difficult but we need it to make ourselves better.
Jane Drinkard
June 29, 2016
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”
— Theodore Roethke, The Waking
Tagged: Future, Fear, Life, learn
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Tagged: food, nutrition, America, system, Politics
“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
— Joan Didion, Where I Came From
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Perseverence, Death
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Tagged: Life, Change, Loss, Heartbreak
“See, sometimes courage isn’t climbing Mount Everest or changing the world. Sometimes your mountain to climb is made up of weekdays and months, made up of pushing yourself forward even when you want to nestle into the past. Sometimes changing the world means changing your world, as gradually as you need to, as gently as you heal, because sometimes courage isn’t made up of war, and bloodshed; sometimes courage isn’t made of combat. Sometimes courage is a quiet fight, a dim softness within you, that flickers even on your darkest days, and reminds you that you are strong, that you are growing — that there is hope.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Congrats On Waking Up Today, For Courage Is In The Little Things
Tagged: Bianca Sparacino, Life, Hard days, Hope
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: yesterday, Change, Life, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Tagged: Mandy Hale, Love, Life, Strong Women
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: self, Self-awareness, situation, Change, Challenge, Life
“ I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that come up with that. Somebody cheats on you. You run out of money. You lose your job.”
— Anna Sale, Interview with Podcaster Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money
Tagged: Adulthood, Myths, Illusions, Life, Surprises
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Tagged: strength, Bravery, boldness, Limits, Life
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore. Don’t seek joy at all costs.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Warning, Advice, Life
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: currency, Happiness, sexiness, Life, Self-awareness, Letting Go
“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”
— Ellen Degeneres, It Gets Better
Tagged: Change, Equality, Life
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Time, Life
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: Life, Happiness, Destruction
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free: Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Stress, Control, Life
“Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.”
— Carrie Bradshaw, 35 Timeless ‘Sex And The City’ Quotes Every Fabulous Single Woman Should Read
Tagged: Sex And The City, Life
“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
— Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Season 5: Anchors Away
Tagged: Sex And The City, Life, Love
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Change, Life, Creating Change, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Woah, woah, partner. Little red flag going up. Something's telling me we should swim through it, not over it.”
— Dory, Finding Nemo
Tagged: Life, inspiration, Advice, aspiration
“There will be an answer, let it be.”
— The Beatles, Let It Be
Tagged: Life, Let It Be, Lyrics, The Beatles, Song Lyrics
“You convince yourself that no other man on the planet has the same qualities as him and thus you have two choices: get him back or settle for someone who will never measure up. I hope you can recognize the absurdity of this!”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
— Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama in her Own Words: The Views and Values of America's First Lady
Tagged: Self-improvement, Decisions, Life, Fear, possibilities
“If you think success is predetermined by talent, it becomes a product of something you can’t change. But if you look at it as a product of hard work, then it’s up to you to control the outcome.”
— Anders Weiss, Training for the Olympics Taught Me the Secret to Life
Tagged: Hard Work, Effort, payoff, olympics, athletes, Talent, outcome
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
— Gilda Radner, It's Always Something
Tagged: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Life
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
— Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
— Maya Angelou
Tagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice