Change Quotes

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don't come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.