Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Change

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Change

When we blame others (or ourselves), we put our energy into our anger disappointment with them and nothing changes. When we look for our power in the situation we can begin to work on change.

Change

Make friends with change.

Change

You can’t stop the future You can’t rewind the past The only way to learn the secret …is to press play

Acceptance, Change

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

Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Change

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change, Habits

I won’t pick up your bad habits. They look heavy and I’ve got a bad back. Plus, I have my own bad habits already.

Acceptance, Change

MAYBE, AND THAT IS FINAL

To be or not to be. Sometimes the choice is ours. Hamlet knew he could “his quietus make with a bare bodkin.”  That would be a knife in Elizabethan times. A little extreme. If I were going to “end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to” I sure as hell wouldn’t stab myself. No, I’m not suicidal. I’m not even depressed. Forgive the maudlin beginning but Hamlet’s soliloquy is probably the most brilliant thing ever written about throwing… Read More

Change, Courage, Death

CHANGES

We can’t let the tragic passing of David Bowie go without some form of a tribute. There is nothing left to say about his genius and cultural contributions that has not been said. Here at Gratitude and Trust we are all about change.   What better way to honor his life then post the lyrics to Changes  here. Thank you David Bowie for being so brave and to have the courage to always change and thus make it less scary… Read More