“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”
“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”
