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A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'
Sep 10, 2025
Only stupid people don't change their minds.
People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.
I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
People don't change just because you know more about them.
Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.
people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character
People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.
People change and forget to tell each other.
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
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.
People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.
I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.