Everything changes....?

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Yesterday I wrote about embracing change in your life.  I came across these quotes which follow on from yesterdays blog.  At times we all find change difficult.  When I mentioned that I was going to be talking about embracing change with my family, I was met with much laughter and heckling!  Change is an area that I am not comfortable with.  I often stamp my foot and refuse to change some of the smallest, silliest things in my life.  When I have decorated a room and laid everything out how I want it, I have no desire to change it and if something is moved out of place, I immediately put it back.  My family sometimes move things deliberately to see how quickly I will move it back into position again! 

I had an old and completely dilapidated mobile phone which Mr T encouraged me to change.  He virtually had to prize the old phone out of my hands and it took me sometime before I could adjust to the new, all singing phone that had been bought for me.  I knew how to use my old phone, it was easy and I loved it even though it was chipped, had a broken screen and looked old fashioned.

I often hold on to things I like longer than I should.  This is a trait that I am working on.  In fact its an area I find so hard that I may be a work in progress for many years to come!!!

I hope you enjoy these quotes.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit


It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming  (Thanks, Michelle)


All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France


When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl


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.  ~Shunryu Suzuki


The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.  ~Henry Miller


When you are through changing, you are through.  ~Bruce Barton


Change always comes bearing gifts.  ~Price Pritchett


The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.  ~Ellen Glasgow

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x