J. Donald Walters Quotes

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.