“Change is inevitable, they say. Struggle is optional.”
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
“Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.”
“Borrowed from my former superintendent of schools: 'Change is inevitable, growth is optional.”
“Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”