When do you know your life has changed? by Cyndi Perlman Fink

The first time you truly understand the meaning of "If you have your health, you have everything."

The first time a dear friend drops dead of a massive heart attack because he didn't take care of his health.

The first time you realize the money doesn't buy happiness, because no matter how much stuff you put in that hole we all carry around, it will never be enough.

The first time you realize that money can't buy happiness because you finally understand what the word happiness means. I won't tell you what it means, only that it doesn't start with Lamborghini or end with Gucci.

The first time you see yourself and love that person who you've been hating and demeaning all these years.

The first time you really fall in love, maybe have your heart broken and learn that you will survive.

The first time you actually hear a bird sing, a baby cry, a river run, a leaf rustle, or a single note on the wind and it moves you to tears.

The first time you lose a parent. The next time you lose a parent.

The first time someone dies, who is so dear to you, that you think you can't breathe and then you do.

The first time you understand that the earth does not revolve around you.

The first time you understand that there is no separation between you and anyone else. Race doesn't matter, skin color doesn't matter, belief system doesn't matter, age doesn't matter, sex doesn't matter - we are all one, travelling through this crazy world, hoping for the same things.

The first time you figure out how to ride a bike without training-wheels, or how to tie your shoelaces by yourself.

The first time the words on the page magically rearrange themselves into things that make sense and your world opens up, and you know and understand at that moment, that everything is possible because you can read.

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— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

Here’s to the

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

R’J

find someone
who knows
you’re sad
just by the change
of tone in your
voice

be with someone
who loves the
feature that
you hate the most

fall inlove with
someone who
looks at you and
knows they don’t
want anyone else

— Dr. D’elve Je Veux III

“The very things 

that we desperately try to change…

are the very things 

someone is dying to 

love.”

and then you meet one person and your life is changed forever

Love and Other Drugs

― Stephen King

“A person can’t change all at once.”

don't ever change

don't change for anybody ♥

if you can't change it,

If you don't like something, change it; 

if you can't change it, 

change the way you think about it.

“Life is full of screwups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existance.”

— Rumi

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

You can suffer

“You can suffer the pain of change, or suffer remaining the way you are.”

— Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore

“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”

Listen closely:

“Listen closely: the only time it’s too late to change yourself is when you’re dead. Until then, you’re simply making excuses or lying to yourself.”

— Elizabeth Scott

“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”

— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It’s never occurred to me before; I’ve never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”

— Mohabbatein

“Koi pyar kare toh tumse kare (someone should love you)
Tum jaise ho waise kare (for the way you are)
Koi tumko badal ke pyar kare (if someone tries to change you to love you)
Toh woh pyar nahi woh sauda kare (then it’s not love, but a compromise)
Aur saheba, pyar mein sauda nahi hota (and in love, there are no compromises)”

~Simone de Beauvoir

Change your life today. 

Don’t gamble on the future,

 act now, without delay. 

Change your thoughts and you change your life…