Change Quotes

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

~ Lemony Snicket

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

~ Walter Mosley

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.

~ Dorothy Parker

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

~ Roy T. Bennett

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

~ Mitch Albom

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

~ Tony Deliso

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

~ Kiera Cass

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

~ Steve Maraboli

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

~ Douglas Adams

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

~ C.s. Lewis

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

~ Sarah Dessen

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

~ Jandy Nelson

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

~ Sigmund Freud

So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

~ Tony Deliso

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

To say goodbye is to die a little.

~ Raymond Chandler

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

~ Lao Tzu

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

~ Steve Maraboli

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

~ Paulo Coelho

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....

~ Erica Jong

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone, change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

~ Katharine Hepburn

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

~ Steve Maraboli

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

~ Diane Duane

It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

~ Stephen King

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

~ Philip Pullman

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Cassandra Clare

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The person you became with her is worth being.

~ Veronica Roth

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.

~ Steve Maraboli