Quotes About Flexibility

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is. Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer…judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience.

Quit accumulating points for being right!

Let go of your ego's need to be right.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist, there is no 'The way' to do anything.

when you suspend your pomposity and rigidity, others recognize themselves in your flexible nature, and they'll trust you.

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

letting yourself be more spontaneous and less regimented in your daily life:

The rigid never grow. They tend to do things the same way they've always done them.

Move from wanting to see permanence in your life to realizing that all things change due to the nature of this being an ever-modifying world.

live more spontaneously—you don't need to neatly wrap up each detail of your life.

It's also important that you live more spontaneously—you don't need to neatly wrap up each detail of your life.

listen more, allow your viewpoints to be challenged, and bend when necessary

Keep track of situations that occur spontaneously or out of the realm of your control.

have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Charles Krauthammer

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.