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Top Quotes to Help During Times of Transition, Change, and Struggle

2/22/2015

 
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By: Dr. Erica Wollerman

As many of you know, my private practice is a relatively new professional development for me and it has certainly been an amazing, inspiring whirlwind. With any new beginning, even ones that we recognize as necessary and positive in our lives, all kinds of emotions are stirred up. For me, putting myself as a therapist “out there” has been a challenge and stirs up a lot of my fears and vulnerabilities. 

This post is inspired by my recent relocation of my private practice office as well as the exciting, tumultuous, intimidating, inspiring, and scary time of starting a new endeavor. I tend to really appreciate language and enjoy reading and using quotes to help me reframe my mindset so I have put together a list of my favorites to share. 

Here are my Top Quotes for Times of Transition, Change, and Struggle:
  • “When we make a change, it’s so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.” – Jeanette Winterson
  • “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield 
  • “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
  • “Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.” – Unknown
  • “Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”   – Unknown
  • “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron
  • “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein 
  • “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.”       - Unknown
  • “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
  • “When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you.” – Spiritual Inspiration
  • “She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them.” – Beau Taplin
  • “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”         – Winston Churchill  
  • “What feels like the end is often the beginning.” – Unknown 
  • “It’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a process; change takes time.” – Unknown
  • “Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, & rearranged to relocate us to the place we’re meant to be.” Quotes ‘n Thoughts (pinterest)
  • “Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.” – Caroline Myss
  • “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”          – Madeline L’Engle
  • “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler Ross
  • “I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
  • “An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great.”   – Unknown
  • “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud
  • “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” - Unknown

Thanks for reading as always!  If you want to add to my list of quotes, please feel free to share in the comments! 

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