“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually begin to change.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 155
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually begin to change.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: At a certain age, you have to make yourself useful for others. When you have lived and life has given you an experience, whether good or bad, the moment arrives when you should pass on what you know. Rather than turn into a dumb old person, you should go further every time. Aging does not exist, neither does mental decline. The memory can have less capacity to find a word or maybe you can feel less sexual desire, less virulence, but there is no reason for desire to have disappeared. If, during your life you have worked the emotions, when you mature you begin to know sublime feelings, which you did not have when you were young because nature did not let you. It takes forty years to find yourself. The true opening of the consciousness cannot be had before this age. From there, the journey begins.
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight
Variant: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0805talk.php
“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Demi Lovato (1992) American singer, songwriter, actress, and author
Gift Of A Friend
Lyrics, Here We Go Again (2009)
“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”
Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine Histories
Comincionsi le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
Variant translation: Wars are begun at will but not ended at will.
Book III, Chapter 7.
Florentine Histories (1526)