Quote

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Elizabeth Lesser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Lesser
Human
Humans
Life
Resist
Beings
Strange
Nature
Change

More quotes by Elizabeth Lesser

Image
Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
First we love within, then we love the world.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Many women hear the word feminine and feel like it's a noose around their neck. Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act, kind of thing.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
It's not always about survival, this life we are given it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser