Change Quotes

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

~ Amit Ray

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment

~ Pema Chödrön

Consciousness is only possible through change, change is only possible through movement.

~ Aldous Huxley

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

~ Nicholas Sparks

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

~ Deb Caletti

If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity.

~ T.s. Eliot

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;For I am like the Moon,you will see me with new face everyday.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

~ Elizabeth Edwards

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

~ Juliet Marillier

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

~ Alexis Carrel

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

~ Spencer Johnson

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...  This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

~ Isaac Asimov

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

~ Victor Hugo

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

~ Helen Hollick

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

~ Julien Smith

There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

~ Elif Shafak

And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

~ Sara Zarr

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

~ Arthur Golden

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

~ J.k. Rowling

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

~ Derek Landy

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...

~ Ellen Hopkins

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

~ A.c. Crispin

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

~ Orson Scott Card

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

~ Emma Goldman

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

~ Steve Maraboli

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must

~ John F. Kennedy

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

~ Michelle Casto

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

~ Robin Hobb

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

~ Jodi Picoult

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

~ Tana French

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

~ Dorothy Bryant

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

~ Peter David

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

~ Terry Hayes

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different.

~ Joshua Caleb

You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

~ Orrin Woodward