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So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.
— Lauren Myracle, Thirteen
Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.
— Dean Jackson
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
If not us, then who?If not now, then when?
— John E. Lewis
We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.
— Matsuri Hino, ヴァンパイア騎士 7
It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.
— Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.
— Sam Stevens
From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows, the delicate web of children's voices in bright air--these things will never change.The glitter of sunlight on roughened water, the glory of the stars, the innocence of morning, the smell of the sea in harbors, the feathery blur and smoky buddings of young boughs, and something there that comes and goes and never can be captured, the thorn of spring, the sharp and tongueless cry--these things will always be the same.All things belonging to the earth will never change--the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth--all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth--these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.The tarantula, the adder, and the asp will also never change. Pain and death will always be the same. But under the pavements trembling like a pulse, under the buildings trembling like a cry, under the waste of time, under the hoof of the beast above the broken bones of cities, there will be something growing like a flower, something bursting from the earth again, forever deathless, faithful, coming into life again like April.
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.
— Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
— Hermann Hesse
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Nobody can change who you are, except for you.
— Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
— H.G. Wells
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn 
— Jim Rohn
If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
— David R. Hawkins
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
— Anita Roddick
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. 
— Jacob M. Braude
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, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
All is flux, nothing stays still
— Plato
Consciousness is only possible through change
—  change is only possible through movement.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...
— Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
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, Wild Roses
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, Daughter of the Forest
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, Who Moved My Cheese?
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, Asimov on Science Fiction
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
— Victor Hugo, Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
— Helen Hollick, The Kingmaking
You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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, The Forty Rules of Love
You really can change the world if you care enough.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.
— Charles de Lint, The Little Country
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, Sweethearts
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, Memoirs of a Geisha
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, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Tides do what tides do–they turn.
— Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
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, Impulse
Edgar, there's a difference between missing him and wanting nothing to change," she said. "They aren't the same things at all. And we can't do anything about either one. Things always change. Things would be changing right now if your father were alive, Edgar. That's just life. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you can get to do other things. If you fight it, you're stuck in the same spot forever. Does that make sense?"But aren't some changes worth fighting?"You know that's true."So how do you know which is which?"I don't know a way to tell for sure," she said. "You ask, 'Why am I really fighting this?' If the answer is 'Because I'm scared of what things will be like,' then, most times, you're fighting for the wrong reason."And if that's not the answer?"Then you dig in your heels and you fight and fight and fight. But you have to be absolutely sure you can handle a different kind of change, because in the end, things will change anyway, just not that way. In fact, if you get into a fight like that, it pretty much guarantees things are going to change.
— David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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, Time for Yesterday
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Book of Positive Quotations
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, Anarchism and Other Essays
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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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, Golden Fool
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, My Sister's Keeper
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, In the Woods
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
— W. Somerset Maugham
But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But change needn't happen all at once. It can be small gestures.""Moments. Do you understand?" He's looking at me differently now, though I cannot say how. I only know I need to look away...We pass by the pools, where the mud larks sift. And for only a few seconds, I let the magic loose again."Oi! By all the saints!" a boy cries from the river."Gone off the dock?" an old woman calls. The mud larks break into cackles."'S not a rock!" he shouts. He races out of the fog, cradling something in his palm. Curiosity gets the better of the others. They crowd about trying to see. In his palm is a smattering of rubies. "We're rich mates! It's a hot bath and a full belly for every one of us!"Kartik eyes me suspiciously. "That was a strange stroke of good fortune.""Yes it was.""I don't suppose that was your doing.""I'm not sure I don't know what you mean," I say.And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Change happens very slow and very sudden.
— Dorothy Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.
— Peter David, Q-In-Law
The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
— Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
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, Anne of the Island
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
instinct leads me to another flow
— Queen Latifah
You can't start the change unless dare to be different.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
— Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were
—  you are not yet where you will get
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
— Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Things change when you're not in danger anymore.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
I hate change more than almost anything.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
— Lesley Kagen, Whistling In the Dark
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
— Robert C. Gallagher
You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.
— Warsan Shire
The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.
— Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.
— Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
— Neil Gaiman, The Wake
If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you've just made a difference.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
— Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.
— Natalie Wood
Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.
— P.C. Cast, Burned
Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
— Jeanette Winterson
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
— Robin Hobb
To experience what isn't, love what is.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.
— Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.
— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
— Audrey McLaughlin
...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.
— Lesley Kagen, Whistling In the Dark
There is never only one, of anyone
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Never be complacent about the current steps; don't agree and follow the status quo. Be determined that you are making an indelible impact with great change. Now, dress up and go to make it happen!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.
— Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
— Aldous Huxley
Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.
— Elana K. Arnold, Burning
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
— Mandy Hale
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
— bell hooks, Talking About a Revolution: Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn
A change is as good as a rest.
— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective
— Death Cab for Cutie
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.
— Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.
— Siegfried Sassoon
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
— Kurt Lewin
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
— bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home.
— Patti   Davis, Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats
God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.
— Tess Gerritsen, Harvest
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
— Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.
— Jay Crownover, Jet
I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Small changes can make huge destination differences.
— Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
I always wondered if they’d change you.
— Kiera Cass, The One
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.
— Herbert Read
You can't change nature, son!""Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.
— Kitty Richards, Ratatouille
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed."By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it.""And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.
— Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
What has been is no more. Change has come.
— Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Superstition and Other Essays
He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.
— Anne Bishop, Marked in Flesh
Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!
— Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Book of Leadership: The 12.5 Strengths of Responsible, Reliable, Remarkable Leaders That Create Results, Rewards, and Resilience
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
— Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
— Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too.
— Cherise Sinclair, Make Me, Sir
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
— Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Change is good but dollars are better.- Tara daniels
— Jill Shalvis, The Sweetest Thing
Hypocrite shouts about the change,but never let risk coming on his way.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it, that have had a major civilizing effect – the feminist movement, the environmental movement, and so on – these are mostly developments of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Their roots might be in the activism of the ‘60s, but the movements themselves developed and extended later. The same is true of the changes in respect for other cultures, rights of oppressed people, and so on. These are quite significant changes. If you compare the United States now to what it was, say, 35 years ago, the changes are quite dramatic. These are changes in popular consciousness that are quite deeply embedded.
— Noam Chomsky
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
— Jill Lepore
I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.
— Lisa Genova, Left Neglected
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
— Larry Wall
There Comes the Strangest MomentThere comes the strangest moment in your life,when everything you thought before breaks free--what you relied upon, as ground-rule and as ritelooks upside down from how it used to be.Skin's gone pale, your brain is shedding cells;you question every tenet you set down;obedient thoughts have turned to infidelsand every verb desires to be a noun.I want--my want. I love--my love. I'll staywith you. I thought transitions were the best,but I want what's here to never go away.I'll make my peace, my bed, and kiss this breast…Your heart's in retrograde. You simply have no choice.Things people told you turn out to be true.You have to hold that body, hear that voice.You'd have sworn no one knew you more than you.How many people thought you'd never change?But here you have. It's beautiful. It's strange.
— Kate Light
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal
— 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
For once, it seems there’s nothing to worry about…… for the time 
— Nick Abadzis, Laika
All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.
— Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York
The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
— Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.
— Sarah Dessen, The Moon and More
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
— Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
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, My Sister's Keeper
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
— Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with everything
— Jim Harrison, Legends of the Fall
What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.
— Israelmore Ayivor
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
— Stephen R. Covey
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it
— Dory Hollander, 101 Lies Men Tell Women -- And Why Women Believe Them
You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.
— Alison Goodman, Eona: The Last Dragoneye
Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
You’ll never change the world just by complaining.
— Tadahiko Nagao
We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.
— Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx
Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)
— Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance:  A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Whatever he had found, it made him a better person. Maybe that's what love was, finding the person who brings out the best in you and eliminates the worst.
— Diana Holquist, Make Me a Match
At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.
— Dianne Sylvan, The Body Sacred
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
— Ernst Fischer
Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project.
— Cornel West, Race Matters
Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
— Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.
— Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
— Boyd K. Packer
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
— Karl Lagerfeld
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.
— George Alexiou
Oh hours of childhood,when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.
— David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
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, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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, Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
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 Life You Want: Get Motivated, Lose Weight, and Be Happy
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, Lady Of Sherwood
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, The Blood of Olympus
I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow
Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
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, The Sound and the Fury