Starting anew

The new year is upon us and with it comes a desire to start anew.

On this 1st day of the year, I would like to share some inspirational quotes about change.

"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it." --Marcus Aurelius
We design our life on a daily basis, we are constantly creating as we are constantly visualizing and thinking.

-"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."  Francis Bacon

When you are through changing, you are through." --Bruce Barton

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have -- and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." --James Belasco and Ralph Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo (1994)

"What is required for effective change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient thought patterns from the past." --Doc Childre and Howard Martin, Freeze-Frame

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." --Alan Cohen

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." --Charles DuBois


"It is never too late to become what you might have been." --George Eliot


"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh


-"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
--"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."- Anaïs Nin


"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." --William Shakespeare


Let this coming year 2012 be a year of positive change so we may become all that we were created to be!
Wishing all of you good fortune, good health and  the best in all areas of your life in 2012!
Doris Crompton