Some collected wisdom.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.  But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it.  Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.  ~Shunryu Suzuki

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.  ~Henry Miller

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse!  As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.  ~Washington Irving

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.  ~Faith Baldwin

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:  If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.  ~Author Unknown

I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed.  ~George Carlin

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.  ~Lynn Hall

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.  ~Joan Wallach Scott

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  ~Saint Augustine

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.  ~Harrison Ford

Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional.  ~M. Kathleen Casey

If you're going through hell, keep going.  ~Winston Churchill

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.  ~Author Unknown

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.  ~Author Unknown

Turn your wounds into wisdom.  ~Oprah Winfrey

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.  ~Walt Disney

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.  They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.  ~Barbara Bloom (Dunno if it’s true but it’s a great sentiment)

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.  ~Agatha Christie

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.  ~Colette

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.  ~African Proverb

There is no education like adversity.  ~Disraeli

Adversity introduces a man to himself.  ~Author Unknown

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.  ~Teddy Pendergrass

Adversity is the first path to truth.  ~Lord Byron

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.  ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.  ~Oscar Wilde

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them.  The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.  ~Voltaire

Shit happens, deal with it. Life never promised to be easy, expecting it to be easy is wrong. ~ Me

Life never throws us the easy balls: it’s always bottom of the ninth and you have one more strike and the pitcher just threw a fast curve ball. In the end all you can do is swing and hope and pray for the best. ~ Me again

Life expects us to make a tie breaking field goal from the 50 yard line, last few seconds of the second quarter, at the Super Bowl. ~ Me yet again

Yes I like sports analogies.