Quotes about change

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“Small changes. Big differences”

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”

“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.”

“In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.”

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.”

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

“Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”

“Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
Is Change.

God
Is Change.”

“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”

“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

“In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.”

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”

“Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.”

“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

“That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.”

“Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.”

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

“If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing”

“But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.”

“How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.”

“Just when we think we have a system,… the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.”

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”

“Invention:
I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.”

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

“To be interested in the changing seasons is… a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

“In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara.”

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”

“She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man”

“The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.”

“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

“Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!”

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

“… when men like us do change, the change is profound.”

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

“Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.”

“The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.”

“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”

“I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves”

“The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.”

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”

“You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel.
-Manny and Butch”

“Change isn't always for the best.”

“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions… by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“No, nothing can change my world
--Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising”

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”

“At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.”

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.”

“They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't change"
"Men do though”

“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”

“I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.”

“There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum.

“Really? What do you call them?”

“Alcoholics.”

“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”

“Nothing is permanent but change.”

“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”

“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”

“… when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.”

“You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.”

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

“I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.”

“But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?”

“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”

“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

“Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

“You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
"You know."
"Know what?"
"That I only have eyes for you.”

“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”

“You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this.. then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon”

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”

“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”