Change Quotes - Page 53

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

Deb Caletti

If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity.

T.S Eliot

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;For I am like the Moon,you will see me with new face everyday.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Elizabeth Edwards

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Juliet Marillier

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

Alexis Carrel

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

Spencer Johnson

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Isaac Asimov

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

Helen Hollick

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Julien Smith

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

Steve Maraboli

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

Daniel Quinn

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.

Dean Jackson

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

Paulo Coelho

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

John E. Lewis

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Nicholas Sparks

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.

Matsuri Hino

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

Sam Stevens

From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows, the delicate web of children's voices in bright air--these things will never change.The glitter of sunlight on roughened water, the glory of the stars, the innocence of morning, the smell of the sea in harbors, the feathery blur and smoky buddings of young boughs, and something there that comes and goes and never can be captured, the thorn of spring, the sharp and tongueless cry--these things will always be the same.All things belonging to the earth will never change--the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth--all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth--these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.The tarantula, the adder, and the asp will also never change. Pain and death will always be the same. But under the pavements trembling like a pulse, under the buildings trembling like a cry, under the waste of time, under the hoof of the beast above the broken bones of cities, there will be something growing like a flower, something bursting from the earth again, forever deathless, faithful, coming into life again like April.

Thomas Wolfe

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Malorie Blackman

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Hermann Hesse

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Sarah Dessen

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Veronica Roth

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

Ursula K Le Guin

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

Jean Kwok

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

H.G.Wells

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Neil Gaiman

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

Hannah Harrington

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Ursula K Le Guin

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

Hubert Selby Jr.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

H.G.Wells

Every hundred feet the world changes

Roberto Bolaño

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

Tess Callahan

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

James T. McCay

But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

Meg Wolitzer

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

George R.R. Martin

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

Alan Cohen

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

John Steinbeck

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Abraham H. Maslow

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Marcus Aurelius

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Anatole France

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Junot Díaz

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

Arundhati Roy

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Graeme Simsion

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

Peter M Senge

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

Suzanne Finnamore

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.

Lauren Myracle

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Michael Ende

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Jennifer Egan

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

H.G.Wells

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

L.M. Montgomery

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