Adjust Your Sails but Don't Let Go of the Rudder

All change is met with resistance but without accepting change there would be no progress.  But change doesn't have to erode your principles and if it is, then perhaps we have chosen the wrong path.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.” 
― George Packer

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” 
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
 by William Arthur Ward


Mark 8: 36
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

Phillipians 4:11-12
 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 

But never adjust your life and give up your principles!
Know your sin and repent, 

1 John 5:5

Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one that believes Jesus is the Son of God.

Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —Ralph Waldo Emerson