“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

Thomas Hardy

"Meaning of the Quote

Constant change: Time alters the world, our bodies, and our surroundings.

Inner resistance: A deep part of human nature expects stability.

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“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily…

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

E. E. Cummings

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Even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications — and most of all himself. For it appears to be an inborn and imperative need…

"The harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Albert Einstein

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear infinite.

William Blake

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"Attention is not just another cognitive function... it is the disposition adopted by one's consciousness toward the world." 

Dr. Iain McGilchrist

This quote is actually one of the central ideas running through The Master and His Emissary and even more…

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

—is one of the most famous attributed quotes associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but it’s very likely apocryphal or at least heavily paraphrased rather…

"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

—Kafka

You know I can 
control the weather
with my moods. 
I just can't control 
my moods is all.

-Nick Cave

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on…

Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.

Hafez

This was quoted at the end of Robert Waldinger's fantastic TED talk on happiness.

"There isn't time -so brief is life- for bickerings, apologies
heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and
but an instant so…

It is often the loudest judgments that come from the quietest comfort. From well-lit rooms and full tables, opinions are formed about lives lived in struggle, without ever stepping into that reality. History and literature alike remind us that empathy…

“The only clue to what man can do is what man has done.”

R.G. Collingwood

The quote is by C. S. Lewis, from his essay/sermon The Weight of Glory (1941).

“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
-Leonard Cohen

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Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years . . .
I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

“Attributed to Giorgos Seferis (unverified).”

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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard

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Just think: nobody can get to the bottom of music. Nobody knows more than the tiniest fraction of what there is to know. It can’t be done.

If no human can possibly manage it, you don’t have to feel you…

“…And after a long time the boy came back again. 
"I am sorry, Boy," said the tree, "but I have nothing left to give you- 
My apples are gone." 
"My teeth are too weak for apples," said the boy. 
"My…

I am inspired by his courage. He trembled with fear—because he was human—and he knew, viscerally, the mortal risks before him. Still, he moved forward, choosing “real” truth, solidarity, and the hard work of doing what was right. There are…

“Thin Places tend to be quiet.” - David Perrell

I must acknowledge Susan Cain for providing awareness of this quote. It was an odd phrase that made me double-take. I use this moment as a pointer to pause and ponder…