As fall marches on towards winter, change is all around us. While the changing of the seasons may seem an obvious metaphor for cycles in life, overcoming struggles, and periods of rebirth; it is nonetheless apropos. I touched upon the beautiful uncertainty of your twenties in a previous Wisdom Wednesday but the notion of change as renewing and exciting as opposed to detrimental is a good idea, regardless your age. Below are some quotes about change, difficult and refreshing, for you and the world, showing us the true sacredness of the small deaths in life.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
~Juan Ramon Jimenez
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
~ Margaret Mead
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 into another.
~ Anatole France
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~ Confucius
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.
~ Carl Rogers
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
~ Sydney J. Harris
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
~ Harrison Ford
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~ Keri Russell
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
~ William Arthur Ward
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr