Afraid of change Quote by Edith Wharton

“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

— James Holman

“What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that from contemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of change and impermanence, we come…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose…

— Steve Maraboli

“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet…

— Henry Miller

“without hope, what is to sustain life, but the fear of annihilation—the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread—I cannot bear…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship…

— J Krishnamurti

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely…

— Rollo May