Helpful thoughts

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

- Ambrose Redmoon

“Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death.”

- Betty Bender

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”

 - Charlie Chaplin

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

-Martin Luther King

“New experiences are meant to deepen our lives and advance us to new levels of competence; they are not meant to be used by the self-important as fooder for shoring up their previously adopted views and conclusions. ”  Epictetus (The First Step)

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”

 - Frederick Douglass

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”

  – Gail Sheehy

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

- Maya Angelou

“It’s not the tragedies that kill us, its the messes.”

- Dorothy Parker

“Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.”

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“It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. “

-Mignon Mclaughlin

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. “
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Things do not change; we change. “
- Henry David Thoreau

“When you are through changing, you are through. “

- Bruce Barton

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. “
- Frank Herbert

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. “

- Mohandas Gandhi

“Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them to.  Accept events as they actually happen.  That way peace is possible.”

-Epictetus