What you can and cannot change
There are many things you can change, and there are many things you simply
cannot change. Both kinds of things can add value to your life.
With the things you can change, you have the opportunity to improve the
circumstances in your own life and in the world around you. In dealing with the things
you cannot change, you can grow stronger and develop real wisdom, patience,
acceptance, and flexibility.
There is much you can learn from the things you cannot change. You can use that
knowledge and experience to positively affect those things you can change.
The things you cannot change give you a base from which to work. The things you
can change give you an ever-increasing world of possibilities.
By gently accepting what you cannot change and finding positive ways to deal with it,
you lay the groundwork for success. By understanding what you can change and
finding positive ways to put that change to work, success and achievement begin to
happen.
What a blessing it is to live in a world where there are both things you can change and
things you cannot. Each turn of events, in its own way, gives you the opportunity for
adding richness to life.
-- Ralph Marston

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What you can and cannot change

  • 1. What you can and cannot change There are many things you can change, and there are many things you simply cannot change. Both kinds of things can add value to your life. With the things you can change, you have the opportunity to improve the circumstances in your own life and in the world around you. In dealing with the things you cannot change, you can grow stronger and develop real wisdom, patience, acceptance, and flexibility. There is much you can learn from the things you cannot change. You can use that knowledge and experience to positively affect those things you can change. The things you cannot change give you a base from which to work. The things you can change give you an ever-increasing world of possibilities. By gently accepting what you cannot change and finding positive ways to deal with it, you lay the groundwork for success. By understanding what you can change and finding positive ways to put that change to work, success and achievement begin to happen. What a blessing it is to live in a world where there are both things you can change and things you cannot. Each turn of events, in its own way, gives you the opportunity for adding richness to life. -- Ralph Marston