Quotes about change page 14
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 3
“Therea kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer
Source: New Chronicles of Rebecca
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.”
Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
The Color Purple (1982)
“Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“… though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”
E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View
“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 26
Source: The Medium is the Massage
“.. nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Variant: The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
Source: The Warrior Heir
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Context: Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
Julie Gregory (1969) American writer
Source: Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Robert Anton Wilson book The Illuminati Papers
Source: The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 111
Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries
Variant: Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron, so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!
Source: The Demigod Diaries
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Variant: If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Source: City of Ashes
Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
Sheryl WuDunn book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Source: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”
Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris
Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. <br class="br">XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Anywhere_out_of_the_world <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: On Wine and Hashish
“Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy
"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Variant: So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
Source: School's Out—Forever
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
“Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
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Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Variant: In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Context: The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”
Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer
“words have the power o change us”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Times will change for the better when you change.”
Maxwell Maltz (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Variant: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
Margaret Mahy book The Changeover
Source: The Changeover
“I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”
Sidney Sheldon Master of the Game
Source: Master of the Game
“When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.”
Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist
“I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”
Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire
Source: Interview with the Vampire
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XII).
Variant: I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
“But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy