Change Quotes

What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfolding, in their lives. This sense makes it possible for them to say: Yes, this new person is important to me: he, or she, is the beginning of something I must live through. Or: This emotion, which I have not felt before, is not the alien I believed it to be. It will now be part of me and I must deal with it.It is easy now, looking back over my life to say: That Anna, in that time, was such and such a person. And then, five years later, she was such and such. A year, two years, five years of a certain kind of being can be rolled up and tucked away, or ‘named’ — yes, during that time I was like that. Well now I am in the middle of such a period, and when it is over I shall glance back at it casually and say: Yes, that’s what I was.

~ Doris Lessing

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

~ Helen Macdonald

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

~ Jeffrey Fry

You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.

~ Chris Colfer

Does the butterfly lose time in the months it grows from caterpillar to flying beauty? One day, I’m going to want to sleep twelve hours at a stretch and I won’t be able to. I’m not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis.

~ Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

~ Luigina Sgarro

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

~ Dexter Palmer

We think the world is steady, rolling through space beneath our feet, day and night, rain and sunlight. And then, one day, you just fall off the planet and drift away, into outer space, and everything you thought was true all the laws that bound your life before, all the rules and norms that kept things in place, that kept you in place, they're gone. And nothing makes sense anymore. Gravity is gone. Love is gone.

~ Nickolas Butler

I don't care who you were. I don't care who you are and I am more concerned with who you're working to become.

~ Baylor Barbee

Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope.

~ Peter Straub

Take a close look at nature and you’ll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, “I’m not the same person I used to be,” is the greatest of all miracles.

~ Toni Sorenson

I wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.

~ Benyf

You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

~ Benyf

You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.

~ Sandeep Sahajpal

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

~ Sharon Weil

Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life

~ Danny Stone

Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades. And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all.

~ Amor Towles

We see so much bad and evil that we forget there could still be good left, somewhere. If you think you deserve to be treated well, it’s a sign that there still so much good left. People only treat us as best as their ability allows them; if you deserve more, try as much as you can to treat them better.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

~ Coretta Scott King

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

~ Sharon Weil

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.

~ Sharon Weil

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

~ Sharon Weil

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

~ Sharon Weil

Patience is not waiting, it is a quality of waiting.

~ Sharon Weil

Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

~ Sharon Weil

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.

~ Sharon Weil

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

~ D.h. Lawrence

Every change is a menace to stability.

~ Aldous Huxley

I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.

~ K. Weikel

The nature of Nature is change.

~ Sharon Weil

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

~ Sharon Weil

A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.

~ Sharon Weil

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

~ Sharon Weil

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

~ Sharon Weil

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

~ Sharon Weil

We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

~ Sharon Weil