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...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

~ John Geddes

Love is divine act that can transform and bring a change of heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

~ David W. Earle

All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step,no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate

~ Earl Lovelace

This is the truth of the world: you can spend years devoting your time and love to someone. You can take care of them willingly and happily. You can think you know them as well as they know themselves. You can trust them entirely. But no one, absolutely no one, will ever change unless they want to, and some are incapable of change- no matter who they are, or what they meant to you. Broken people will always find a way to justify their selfish ways. There is no such thing as a promise.

~ Kels Adeline Sapp

I still wake longing for your touchSkin open wound rawbecause I was told that's the only way to heal.I couldn't tame youyou weren't meant for domesticationmeant to roam freebut I still rememberthe first time you said I love youa whisper barely audibleafraid of choking on your wordsor mineyou preferred me voicelessblank stare submissiveswallowing back years of lost timewaiting for you to change.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.

~ Pazaria Smith

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

~ Anthony Liccione

Little choices determine habit,Habit carves and molds characterWhich makes the big decisions.

~ Elizabeth George

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

~ Amit Kalantri

Throughout history, there have been people who mattered more. Some of them, like Ulysses S. Grant and Winston Churchill and Jonas Salk, changed the course of history in grand strokes. Others, like Reuben Styrlund and Dora Salk, made a meaningful difference on a smaller stage...Remembered or not lived out in a small town or on the world's stage, the journey of relevance matters.

~ Marian Deegan

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

~ John Lancaster Spalding

An infinite soul incarnates in order to catalyze massive spiritual change in a civilization, generally during a shift from one average soul age to another. An incarnation of a transcendental soul usually precedes it in order to catalyze massive social change.

~ Shepherd Hoodwin

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

~ Vikas Swarup

It's the journey, not the destination, that changes us! HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.

~ Karen Kimsey-House

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.

~ David Nicholls

The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.

~ Darren Hardy

You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

~ Jeff Jarvis

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.

~ Steve Maraboli

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

~ Grace Murray Hopper

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

~ Dan Pearce

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

~ Dan Pearce

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

~ Aberjhani

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

~ David W. Earle

Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.

~ Kate Levinson

When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragile to opportunity

~ Addison Killebrew

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?

~ Kelly J. Cogswell

Our communities basically want the same things—safe, clean environments; affordable, adequate housing and transportation; educational opportunities; accessible, quality health care; meaningful work at a fair wage; and equitable services for everyone. So, in the spirit of warmth and energy that our campfire metaphor brings, I invite each of you to be the spark that ignites your community to be safer, healthier, and fairer—and fired up for change.

~ Frances Dunn Butterfoss

You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.

~ Jonathan Renshaw