Quotes about change

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“Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.”

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

“However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.”

“… I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.”

“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”

“I punched to line. "Yes? What?"
"Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.”

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians… And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.”

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”

“Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.”

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”

“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.”

“The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“memories are funny things. Sometimes they’re real, but other times they change into what we want them to be”

“Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.”

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

“… you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.”

“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”

“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”

“Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.”

“If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”

“When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait”

“Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.”

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”

“The Warrior of the Light is a believer.

Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”

“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”

“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.”

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

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

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”

“… the change was adjustment without improvement.”

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

“I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.”

“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”

“Things did change. He’d gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he’d ever say so out loud”

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”

“We are all what our pasts have made us,” Catarina said. “The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept.”

“If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.”

“If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.”

“Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.”

“The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.”

“I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland.
A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”

“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."

"But it'd be there.”

“A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.”

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

“You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.”

“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.”

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.”

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“even if we can’t change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That’s how we rebel against destiny”

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

“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”

“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”

“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”

“Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.”

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.”

“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”

“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it… But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J. R. Isidore”

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”

“Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.”

“I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.”

“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.”

“You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)”

“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.”

“I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon.

~Carter Kane”

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

“Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.”

“You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.”

“There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.”

“We have to be prepared for change.”

“Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”