Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

Half my life is an act of revision.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.