A. A. Milne Quotes

I was kind of lost for several years.

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.