We are challenged by new 'Change' after our surgery. The challenges of change are big, but our capacity to respond is almost endless. We must make changes that are timely and which also provide long-range strength and health.
Change is constant. Times change, things change and circumstances change so we must and do change, adjust, make new plans, turn in another direction, take a different path. We are adept at being adaptable.
We re-evaluate priorities and tend to take less for granted. We learn much about ourselves and much about how precious life and people are. We learn to say things that count now and don't wait until later because we are acutely aware that later may never come. This changes us and it changes our relationships with others. We hopefully become better people.
Change is with us forever - in more ways than one! The following are quotes that are rather timely:
"Change amuses the mind" - Johan Wolfgang Goethe
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and the present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"There is nothing permanent except change" - Heraclitus
"All our resolves and decisions are made in a mood or frame of mind which is certain to change" - Marcel Proust
"Never underestimate the ability of a small dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed it's the only thing that has ever changed the world" Margaret Mead
"It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes" - William Shakespeare
"Change is such hard work" - Billy Crystal
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one" - Francis Bacon
"The only person who truly welcomes change is a wet baby" - Mary Francis Henry
