Echoes

Accept everything just the way it is.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, but love it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency or change. That everything changes is the basic truth for each existence. No one can deny this truth and all teaching of Buddhism is condensed within it. This is the teaching for all of us. Wherever we go this teaching is true. This teaching is also understood as the teaching of selflessness. Because each existence is in constant change, there is no abiding self.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.