Quotes about change

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“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”

“But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)”

“The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.”

“Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!

As if there were no
such thing as integrity!”

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”

“They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.”

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”

“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails”

“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”

“And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.”

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”

“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”

“Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.”

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”

“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

“Yeah, but I don’t want to be in pain, and I definitely don’t want to suffer.” – Nick
“Well…The only way to avoid them is to die.” – Death
“Okay, let’s change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken.” – Nick”

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

“I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end… without Rangiku having to cry.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

“A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.”

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”

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

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

“I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.”

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.”

“Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”

“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”

“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”

“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”

“Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.”

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

“Words are where most change begins.”

“Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.”

“Things won't change unless you change you.”

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

“I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.”

“… classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then.”

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

“The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds”

“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.”

“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”

“It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.”

“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.”

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.”

“We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”

“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”

“Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.”

“Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.”

“What we see, we see
and seeing is changing”

“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,…. Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”

“Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense”

“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”

“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

“… had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

“But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”

“You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

“One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.”

“I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

“Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”

“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”

“Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.”

“You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.”
“You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.”