Quotes about change

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“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

“A change is as good as a rest.”

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”

“True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.”

“People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”

“changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!”

“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”

“It doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary.”

“If you never change your mind, why have one?”

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

“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.”

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”

“I want you forever, Kate. I want to grow old and have you here in my arms. I want children. I've wanted you for so long. I don't think that's about to change.”

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

“God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change”

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”

“Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

“the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.”

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

“Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process — a way of solving problems”

“You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.”

“Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.”

“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

“Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

“If you ever decide on a career change, I’d avoid motivational speaking.”

“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life”

“I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.”

“You see gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history rather than simply repeat it. Humans can… how do you moderns say it… think outside the cup.”

“Surrender… sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!”

“The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.”

“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”

“There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.”

“I change the world, the world changes me.”

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

“One day, you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”

“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”

“I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.
You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,
And long enough to see some change.”

“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”

“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”

“You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”

“What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”

“I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.”

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!”

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”

“As one individual changes, the system changes.”

“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
[Mameha]”

“Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.”

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”

“Application of your faith will change your life”

“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

“Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina”

“You can’t change the music of your soul.

—In Esquire, 1967”

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”

“Deanna's voice softened. "Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him."”

“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

“That hat looks ridiculous.”
“Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.”

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”

“Don't leave yet," he said, his voice hoarse. "Let me do something. Let me feed you. Hold you. Rub your shoulders. Change your oil. Anything, please.”

“Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.”

“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”

“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.”

“What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.”