“Major life events—starting a new job, moving, getting married, having children—have the same effect, many times over. They take away our habit cues and remove the predictability of life. They shake everything up, and for a moment, all of your behaviors—habitual and otherwise—are in the air, waiting for you to direct their placement. Yes, major life changes are stressful times full of uncertainty. But they are also opportunities to reimagine ourselves and restructure our lives. We are freed up to practice new behaviors without interference from established cues and our habitual responses to them.”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
“To transform yourself entirely is simple: you must dream, as clearly and lucidly as if it were real, and in that dream you must live a life so entirely that when you wake you will not know if you have awoken from a dream or entered one.”
Source: Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth
“I wanted to make people feel great about themselves -just the way they are. I wanted them to see that you can have saggy boobs and a C-section and still be sexy. You can be over 40 and not dissapear into the shadows. That you can be a mom who isn't perfect and still be a good mom. I wanted people just be whoever they are, without feeling they had to change to fit the mould.”
Source: F*cked at 40
“We are all squeezed into new shapes by the people around us. If we are paying attention, though, we always have some say in how we are altered.”
Source: Deeplight
“I thought perhaps I was reading too much into it, but maybe it was that Tyler had changed, but by everything that I held dear, he was still Tyler Woodland, so I went with him.”
Source: Our Time Apart
“In truth, neither volatility nor change have an inherent valence.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“He'd remembered my favorite color. Of course he had, because he was still the same person - thoughtful and kind. Like he'd always been. For everything that changed, something stayed the same.”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“God’s love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.”
Source: Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
“Things have to change here, and if all the good people leave, who will do the work?”
Source: The City Inside
“I am not sorry for the past. I am not sorry for the lost time. I am glad of the great change which has been made in my life”
Source: Bleak House