David Whyte Quotes

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.