“Nothing is going to change unless you first change”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73
“Nothing is going to change unless you first change”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73
“UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.”
Source: The Lorax (1972)
CBC Documentary: How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis (1966)
Context: We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you're gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility.
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
Variant: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Never stick your hand out and let someone squirt something into it unless you know what it is.”
Radio From Hell (January 18, 2007)
“Kristin, nothing ever does change.”
I jerked a thumb back at the crowd outside. “You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves. You’ll always have people like Kawahara and the Bancrofts to push their buttons and cash in on the program. People like you to make sure the game runs smoothly and the rules don’t get broken too often. And when the Meths want to break the rules themselves, they’ll send people like Trepp and me to do it. That’s the truth, Kristin. It’s been the truth since I was born a hundred and fifty years ago, and from what I read in the history books, it’s never been any different. Better get used to it.”
Epilogue (p. 524)
Altered Carbon (2002)