Change Quotes

The next time you feel that you will never get past the things you’re experiencing now, look back on the trials you’ve experienced in the past and think about how far you’ve come since they happened. Trials won’t last forever, and change will always benefit you. Remember that without change, there would be no butterflies. Without change, the dead of winter would never turn into the beauty of spring. Without change, the dark of night would never turn into the triumph of dawn.

~ Jayda Skidmore

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

~ Tim Chester

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding things and then recovers unison with it—either through effort or by some happy chance. And, in a growing life, the recovery is never mere return to a prior state, for it is enriched by the state of disparity and resistance through which it has successfully passed. If the gap between organism and environment is too wide, the creature dies. If its activity is not enhanced by the temporary alienation, it merely subsists. Life grows when a temporary falling out is a transition to a more extensive balance of the energies of the organism with those of the conditions under which it lives.

~ John Dewey

I'd learned balance is internal, that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.

~ Kaira Rouda

This time should have been no different. But it was.

~ Alexandra Bracken

We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live!

~ Kim Yannayon

We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!

~ Kemi Sogunle

Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

~ Stella Payton

We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!

~ Amanda Gore

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

And for a split second Cleo saw the value in living openly. Liberation was Windex for the soul. It let the light shine through. But why dwell? Nothing was ever going to change.

~ Lisi Harrison

Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that's already inside of you.

~ Auliq Ice

They say the world has always struggled with injustice and always will. But change is more possible than ever before.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

~ Patti Digh

The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was only remotely like the woman I fell in love with. It had been an awful fairy-tale reverse transformation. Over just a few years, the old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the east ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and out stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy. My wife was no longer my wife but a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of solving Amy. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebook on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings. My old Amy, damn, she was fun. She was fun. She made me laugh. I'd forgotten that. And she laughed, From the bottom of her throat, from right behind that small finger-shaped hollow, which is the best place to laugh from. She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

~ Gillian Flynn

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn’t the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs. And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable. But there were always emergencies, weren’t there?

~ Cory Doctorow

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

~ Sakyong Mipham

Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.

~ Steven Redhead

LOVE – PEACE – SUCCESS: When they are what we desire, they fuel our hope… When they are seen in our behavior, they change our lives.

~ Steve Maraboli

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

~ Patti Digh

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so completely that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

~ R.a. Salvatore

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

~ Hugh Prather

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

~ Malcolm X

Do the new, be the change.

~ Neeraj Vohara

Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.

~ A. Lynn

Change is actually what you need to avoid.Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

~ Larry Watson

We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes.

~ Auliq Ice

In any situation, I choice to keep my peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

~ Thomas Pynchon

We can’t have what we want and nothing is gonna change it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

change.

~ Mara Schiavocampo

Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.

~ Auliq Ice