Martha Stewart Quotes

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid.

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

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

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.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.