Change Quotes

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

~ Muhammad Yunus

Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change.

~ Santosh Kalwar

We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.

~ Kristi Bowman

I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten.

~ Ian Jukes

...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or experiencing a loving touch...So while you may not be able to change the wiring in your brain, you can feed those reward centers other pleasures...Biology isn't destiny when you have effective strategies...

~ Bob Greene

The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.

~ Kimberly Cuttler

And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.

~ Jennifer Roberson

The guy had literally been through hell and back. Even when he wasn’t trying, he made the toilets explode. What would Percy be like if he wanted to act scary?

~ Rick Riordan

I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.

~ Tahereh Mafi

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it...

~ William Faulkner

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

~ Raymond Carver

We are all glorified motion sensors.Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change.We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same time we observe and obsess over small, fast-moving, ephemeral things of little value.The trick to rediscovering constants is to stop and focus on the greater panorama around us. While everything else flits abut, the important things remain in place.Their stillness appears as reverse motion to our perspective, as relativity resets our motion sensors. It reboots us, allowing us once again to perceive.And now that we do see, suddenly we realize that those still things are not so motionless after all. They are simply gliding with slow individualistic grace against the backdrop of the immense universe.And it takes a more sensitive motion instrument to track this.

~ Vera Nazarian

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

~ Suzy Kassem

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

~ Eric Hoffer

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.

~ Ada Limon

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

~ Al Gore

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

~ V.s. Naipaul

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

~ Susan Patron

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

~ Michelle Moran

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

~ Samuel Beckett

A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say.

~ David Wroblewski

Lives are made of strings of moments, and every once in a while, one of those moments is pivotal and defining. It changes everything, alters you so completely that when you look back, there’s a clear before and after

~ Elizabeth Norris

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

The Doctor is all of us, he lives and dies as all of us, and we need him to – because no matter the anvil-imagery of the Doctor as Christ, this is actually a far older and far simpler story than that. Everything changes. We all regenerate. I am not the same woman who first saw Rose ascend. Years go by and I become someone new, with the same memories but a new face, a new self.

~ Catherine Valenti

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;Nought may endure but Mutability!

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

~ Wade Davis

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

~ Toba Beta

Are you Stupid?Huh?Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn't so bad...I was scared of change too. We're both scared. Lets be friend...okay?

~ Peach-Pit

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

~ Margaret Atwood

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

~ Katherine Mansfield

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

~ Stephen King

She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl.

~ Paolo Giordano

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

~ Claire Keegan

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

~ Roberto Bolaño

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

~ Sonia Johnson