If you realize that all things change, there is nothing that you will try to hold onto.
— Lao Tzu
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another. — Anatole FranceĀ
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another. — Anatole FranceĀ
(via trampled-rose)
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
— Maya Angelou
(via a-fortunate-accident)
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
—
Leo Tolstoy