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The teachings of the Mage Guild were that none of these others was real, no one else and nothing anywhere was real, that everything around him was merely a shadow born of Alain's own illusions. He had accepted that wisdom—until he had met Mari. In a world where nothing was allowed to change, Alain had been changed.He could let himself feel emotions again. He had learned what it meant to help someone else. He had learned what a friend was. He had forgotten what love was. Until he had fallen in love.
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
But it may be that I betrayed myself. Since Dorcastle, my ability to supress my emotions has diminished. I know feelings are showing, not in ways which commons might see, but clearly enough for Mages to spot. My elders could well have decided that I am ruined, that my contact with you has corrupted me beyond correction." ..."What does it take to corrupt a Mage, anyway?""I told you. They thought that you had attempted to seduce me. Perhaps they thought that you had already succeeded despite my denials that such a thing had happened."Once again Mari stared at him, her face darkening. "I was under the impression that your elders thought I would try that at some future point. What did you tell them to make them think that I had already put my moves on you? Or that I had already hooked you?""Hooked?" Alain asked. "Ensnared." Mari got the word out between clenched teeth. "I told them nothing. That is the illusion they wished to believe, not thinking there could be any other reason for a female Mechanic to seek my company." Alain paused in thought. "A young and attractive female Mechanic, that is.""Oh right. The one with all those physical charms.""Yes," Alain agreed. She gasped a laugh. "I was being sarcastic again, Alain. I hope that isn't the only reason you've been attracted to me. Not the only reason anyway.""You are very pleasant to look upon," Alain said, and Mari's face flushed again. Had he angered her? "But my elders were foolish to think physical desire alone could corrupt me. It should not be possible with all of my training, but I found that a single shadow was by far the most important part of the world illusion. That is what doomed me, so my elders were correct in thinking that you had altered my thinking. Not with your body or other physical temptation, but with who you were and the things you did." Alain made another effort to bend his lips into a smile. "I will never be able to return to what I was before I met you.
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Two years could change so much under the facade of changing nothing at all.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword
Nothing remains the same.The only thing that never changesis the fact that everything changes.
— A.J. Beirens
Outside there a lot of powerful stuff, starting from mind movies up to movies like drama, real life, horror, mysteries and many other. Music which makes your day interesting, quotes which change your thought, books which provoke and many other stuff... (So now you know what's everything about, Good Luck with the other Stuff!)
— Deyth Banger
(There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!)Why do we ask questions which we aren't interested in real like "How are you", you answer, then the other "Oh, I'm also well" or "Why??", so, so, so and that's all... Then he says that, that and that and that's all so it's not about communicating as far as for sharing?? Am I right??A lot of people use "If"...But I still don't get why people say "Building" in case the action has finished, it must be something as a word and why people say "was" like "I was a smart kid", but why "was??". Why people say "I was used to like this... for now I don't watch it anymore..." why do we say this. Why??... Is it the way how it ends the humanity??This or nothing, real or lie... If I lie (Why did I lie) - WTF, if I say the truth (oh, oh, I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION - Take it as shouting)WTF
— Deyth Banger
(The World isn't anymore how you see it), think on this thought little...The world is changed just from reading this, isn't it?
— Deyth Banger
There’s a fine line between trying to be everything your mate wants you to be and wanting to be loved for who you are.
— Brownell Landrum
Gone were the days where December locked coastal towns down in the grips of labour. Although it was still mostly true, things had changed ; Cape Town had adapted its rhythm to the influx of foreign feet. Tourism was a year -round thing and no longer limited to the summer. Most local tourists still flocked here during this time, but Capetonians didn’t seem too bothered to serve at their beck and call. Sam thought of Cape Town as France , and the rest of the country as England. The city, although relying heavily on local tourism – feigned ignorance when it came to the contribution of these outsiders to its wellbeing.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so hard everyone can do it.
— Deyth Banger
Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.
— Shannon L. Alder
Kindness carries no price tag neither does it require making a purchase. A random act of kindness can change someone's life...choose to be kind always.
— Kemi Sogunle
Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.
— Elvis Costello
For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot deviate from the course to which nature inclines him, and because, having always prospered while adhering to one path, he cannot be persuaded that it would be well for him to forsake it. And so when occasion requires the cautious man to act impetuously, he cannot do so and is undone: whereas had he changed his nature with time and circumstances, his fortune would have been unchanged.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
You are a change maker and nothing should clean this notice off the boards of your heart!
— Israelmore Ayivor, You Can Rise
The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well.Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.
— Daniel Egger
The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact!
— Deyth Banger
You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.
— Shannon L. Alder
Change is not the words you believe, it is the belief others have in you.~bns
— Bluenscottish
If you change your words to positive reinforcement, the negative reactions will lose their power
— Bluenscottish
The thing that is changing...Is it my surroundings, or myself?
— Mika Yamamori
Love is the greatest force to change human heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In life, everything is built. Have you thought about it. You built who you are, how you want to be perceived, you built your character, you chose to remain where you are, you are your own creator. You can choose to be something else. You are not what you were, you can be anything you choose to build.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
Man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
— Scott Ginsberg
Maybe with the right person rocking it with you, change wasn’t so bad.Maybe panties and kale juice were just the beginning.
— J.A. Rock, Manties in a Twist
Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
— Daniel Egger
Every day kindness can change many hearts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our call to action is to be in the flow of life, accepting life as it is and as it comes. We must allow life to be life in all its impermanent grandeur. Nothing remains the same, and those who fight change, or are in denial of it, create chaos within their own lives and the lives of those they have influence over.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
You have to accept the situation to be able to change it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know your final destination, I suggest to change it. (Is it Okay??? (FINAL DESTINATION FILM) )
— Deyth Banger
As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.
— Amit Chatterjee
We Person-Centred Approach people are as human as anyone else after all, and, as does everyone, must daily face the difference between our aspirations and stated values, and our actual choices and behaviours, and the resulting outcomes. However, we keep giving ourselves a chance to change, again and again, thus more closely approximating our hopes for how we can be together
— Gay Barfield, Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change
I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.
— Namrata Kumari, Change Your Beliefs To Change Your Reality
Change is not change without changing Your Self first by changing the external factors of yourself, for darkness cannot glow in the light
— Goitsemang Mvula
The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction. This is how we are refined by our pain. When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. The storm gives us the gift of our defining choices. You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection. People who stay perfect and unblemished never really get to live fully or deeply. You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life roars at us when it wants or needs us to change. Ultimately, change means trans formation, a shifting from one form to another that involves the magic of creation. The trouble with entrenched oppositions is that each side becomes increasingly one-sided and single minded and unable to grow or meaningfully change. In the blindness of fear and the willfulness of abstract beliefs, people forget or reject the unseen yet essential unity that underlies all the oppositions in life.
— Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.
— P. Wish
To be truly free is to liberate yourself from worries. To have peace despite chaos engulfing your world, to let go and let God. To live one day at a time and to embrace the winds of change and not to chase what is not meant to be yours. To just wait patiently for God's Divine Timing and to savor the moment each day has to offer.
— Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo
The only thing that is stuck is your mind, and you have all the power in the world to change it.
— Theodore Volgoff, The Backpack
Change is not an option,it is a self demand for excellence.
— Bluenscottish
When will you stop doing what you’ve always done and start doing what you can to begin to live the life you deserve?It’s Time. You’ve got this.
— Colleen Ferrary Bader
Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers," Ruth said."Into what?" Ezekiel asked.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!
— Dada Bhagwan
The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
Sometimes you want to change the past by going from the future in the past. But sometimes you find that everything which you have done, it's not better but it becomes worst but why?(11.22.63 - Better Check it out!)
— Deyth Banger
They haven’t changed Zach
—  you have. I think that each of us has.
How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?
— Saim Cheeda
Everyone was born with thought and dream...after a lot of time they just gave up. The life went upon their waist, they couldn't handle it and they fail!
— Deyth Banger
Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion.
— Debasish Mridha
It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
Christ change my life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.
— Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
Keep living the best you could possibly offer life. You might not literally change the world if that's your original dream, but you would change, inspire, and make a difference in one person's world with the best of your world. Then you'd realize the truth that, one is too many.That, my dear, is the right step in the direction of changing the world.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Flaws.We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consider my flaws to be things that I do not like about myself and things that I would like to change.
— Horacio Jones
The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.
— Anne Bishop, Murder of Crows
You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.
— Henry T. Blackaby
As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That’s the alchemy of art.
— Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day
Change is the nature of nature,'" she read. "'For example, stars expand as they grow older. They grow from a star, to a red super-giant, to a supernova. When a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the explosion dispenses different elements-helium, carbon, oxygen, iron, nickel-across the universe, scattering starduest. That stardust now makes up the planets, including ours.
— Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky
The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.
— Michael Meade
The process of miraculous change is twofold.  One:  I see my error or dysfunctional pattern.  Two: I ask God to take it from me.  The first principle without the second is impotent.  As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here.  You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either. The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him.  He won't work without our consent.  He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness, because that would be violating our free will.  We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up.  In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history.
— Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
This is the day that can change everything for you.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Sometimes when you try to change the world, the world changes you!
— Alex Haditaghi
We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves.
— Debasish Mridha
Change the way you treat your partner. Learn to treat your partner as you would yourself. Change the way you pray for your partner. Learn to pray unselfishly. Change the way you talk to your partner. Learn to speak life to him/her daily. Change the way you show love to your partner. Learn to do something different regularly. The more you change, the more your relationship changes for the better not to make you become bitter.
— Kemi Sogunle
The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it.  The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them.  Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness.   But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
I turn my heart to the light and receive its beauty and nourishment. I turn my heart to the shadows as they reveal hues, shades and textures that contrast the light. I turn my heart to them both and embrace their gifts, for they have graced me with blessings untold.
— Kristin Granger
The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
To me, being appropriatedoes not always mean conforming. Often it means justthe opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confrontingis not only appropriate but necessary to change theworld for the better.
— Donda West
You can’t change the past, but all of us have the power to change the future.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.
— James C. Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
If every punch, kick done by somebody female or male (it doesn't matter) or a curses said by one of this two sexes and every other thing which makes you feel that you aren't protected or you are heart. Was replacted with a book, that you don't receive a punch or kick, but a book you will be an a librarian!
— Deyth Banger
If you want to change situation, first change your thoughts and perceptions.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t try to change the situation. Change the mindset and the situation will change.
— Debasish Mridha
The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.
— Sara Sheridan, Operation Goodwood
I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.
— Robert Waterman, Jr.
With every moment and every heartbeat, we change even though we still fear change.
— Debasish Mridha
...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.
— James C. Collins
The message to me was simple: you might change your whole life and lose love, but real good friends are REALLY fucking hard to come by, specifically if you live a life of intergalactic adventure.
— Ryan Britt, Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths
The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.
— Natalie C. Parker, Behold the Bones
I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
— Susan Sontag
Change your life by following the desires of your heart, aiming to achieve your true bliss; creating your own part of heaven here on earth.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
I was wrong, I thought I could change her to different, something better, elegant, but instead of it the same thing she gifted to me, don't know why, when, how, but she did so well..!
— Ridhdhesh Jivawala
If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.
— Dionna L. Hayden
Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.
— Dionna L. Hayden
The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.
— Terry Pratchett
Change is often overrated: at times, all you need to change is how you change what you change in your life.
— Asuni LadyZeal
Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.
— Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes
Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Change what is into the wonder it can be.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
All began to change in the reverse direction and grow more tender. The white hair of the elderly began to grow black; the cheeks of the bearded to grow smooth, and one and all to return to the season of bloom that they had left behind them. Young men’s bodies grew smoother and smaller day by day and night by night till they reverted alike in mind and body to the likes of a newborn infant, and then dwindled right away and were clean lost to sight.
— Plato, the Statesman
Everything is determined by your interpretation of what happens. You can change the meaning of what happens through your perception of events or memories.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.
— Jeanette Winterson
How your brain developed during your first five years has had an enormous impact on how well you learn and cope today. Again, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you are made of cells and cells change. So even if you didn’t get the best start, you can have a fantastic finish.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Start to change your reality today, moulding your reality to suit what you want from life.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Understanding your own anatomy and how it functions is crucial to changing your thinking and changing your life.
— Toni Sorenson
For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness....We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.
— Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
— Allen Wheelis, How People Change
You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.
— Marty Rubin
People may indeed be treated as objects and may be profoundly affected thereby. Kick a dog often enough and he will become cowardly or vicious. People who are kicked undergo similar changes; their view of the world and of themselves is transformed. . . People may indeed be brainwashed, for benign or exploitative reasons. . .If one's destiny is shaped by manipulation one has become more of an object, less of a subject, has lost freedom. . . If, however, one's destiny is shaped from within then one has become more of a creator, has gained freedom. This is self-transcendence, a process of change that originates in one's heart and expands outward. . . begins with a vision of freedom, with an "I want to become...", with a sense of the potentiality to become what one is not. One gropes toward this vision in the dark, with no guide, no map, and no guarantee. Here one acts as subject, author, creator.
— Allen Wheelis, How People Change
Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.
— Donna Goddard
In a condition of struggle and of failure we must be able to say "I must try harder" or "I must try differently." Both views are essential . . . A change in either makes for a change in outcome. When we say "I must try harder" we mean that the most relevant variable is something within us - intention, will, determination, "meaning it" . . When we say "I must try differently" we mean that the most relevant variable lies in the situation within which intention is being exerted, that we should look to the environment, to the ways it pushes and pulls at us, and in this study find the means to alter that interaction.
— Allen Wheelis, How People Change
You are not a victim. You are a willing participant that has created your own anxiety through your negative mind, insecurities and actions. If you want to secure your future then the only way is through love, forgiveness and the willingness to admit you have participated in the uncomfortableness you are experiencing now. Stop telling yourself you are justified in hate, indifference, silence or bias. You are not. You can't build a positive life through battling others. The world is full of victims. No one wants to hear that story. People want to know how you did what the majority wouldn't do-you forgave and built up your enemies. It is seems totally rare and unheard of these days to swallow your pain and take the high road, but guess what? Those are the leaders that people admire and want to know. Those are the 1% who change the world and people's lives. So why do you want to be like the world when you can be beyond it?
— Shannon L. Alder
Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.
— E.N. Supen, Turning Point
You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!
— Hideaki Sorachi
Originality must compound with inheritance.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Having a positive attitude gives you the power to uplift, the power to create change, the power to motivate, the power to inspire, the power to influence, the power to cultivate happiness, and the list goes on.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently. They have beat their heads against the same wall so long that they decide they have had enough. They have invested in the same slot machines without a pay-off for so long that they finally are willing either to stop playing, or to move on to others. Their migraines hurt, their ulcers bleed. They are alcoholic. They have hit the bottom. They beg for relief. They want to change.Another thing that makes people want to change is a slow type of despair called ennui, or boredom. This is what the person has who goes through life saying, "So what?" until he finally asks the ultimate big "So What?" He is ready to change.A third thing that makes people want to change is the sudden discovery that they can. This has been an observable effect of Transactional Analysis. Many people who have shown no particular desire to change have been exposed to Transactional Analysis through lectures or by hearing about it from someone else. This knowledge has produced an excitement about new possibilities, which has led to their further inquiry and a growing desire to change. There is also the type of patient who, although suffering from disabling symptoms, still does not really want to change. His treatment contract reads, "I'll promise to let you help me if I don't have to get well." This negative attitude changes, however, as the patient begins to see that there is indeed another way to live. A working knowledge of P-A-C makes it possible for the Adult to explore new and exciting frontiers of life, a desire which has been there all along but has been buried under the burden of the NOT OK.
— Thomas A. Harris, I'm OK - You're OK
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.
— Nikki Rowe
At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change.
— J.R. Rim
When life gets rough, never think you have failed... allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your inner core of self — you then can put things in to perspective. Don't allow your futile attempts to want to change your outer world, take a detour, and instead, change the only thing that you have the power to - your inner world. And remember: There is no such thing as failure—only learning opportunities.
— Angie karan
The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Telling the world you are trying is not doing.
— Shannon L. Alder
Neurotic suffering indicates inner conflict. Each side of the conflict is likely to be a composite of many partial forces, each one of which has been structured into behavior, attitude, perception, value. Each component asserts itself, claims priority, insists that something else yield, accommodates. The conflict therefore is fixed, stubborn, enduring. It may be impugned and dismissed without effect, imprecations and remorse are of no avail, strenuous acts of will may be futile; it causes - yet survives and continues to cause - the most intense suffering, humiliation, rending of flesh. Such a conflict is not to be uprooted or excised. It is not an ailment, it is the patient himself. The suffering will not disappear without a change in the conflict, and a change in the conflict amounts to a change in what one is and how one lives, feels, reacts.
— Allen Wheelis, How People Change
Every change comes in a challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whenever, you face a challenge, it is time for a change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.
— Sam Weiss
I long for the Church to be more truly itself, and for me this involves changing its stance on war, sex, investment and many other difficult matters. I believe in all conscience that my questions and my disagreements are all of God. Yet I must also learn to live in and attend to the reality of the Church as it is, to do the prosaic things that can be and must be done now and to work at my relations now with the people who will not listen to me or those like me—because what God asks of me is not to live in the ideal future but to live with honesty and attentiveness in the present, i.e., to be at home."What if the project in question is myself, and not some larger social question such as war? At the end of the day, it is the central concern for most of us. We long to change and to grow, and we are rightly suspicious of those who are pleased with the way they are and cannot seem to conceive of changing any further. Yet the torture of trying to push away and overcome what we currently are or have been, the bitter self-contempt of knowing what we lack, the postponement of joy and peace because we cannot love ourselves now—these are not the building blocks for effective change. We constantly try to start from somewhere other than where we are. Truthful living involves being at home with ourselves, not complacently but patiently, recognizing that what we are today, at this moment, is sufficiently loved and valued by God to be the material with which he will work, and that the longed-for transformation will not come by refusing the love and the value that is simply there in the present moment."So we come back, by a longish detour, to the point to which Mark's narrative brought us: the contemplative enterprise of being where we are and refusing the lure of a fantasized future more compliant to our will, more satisfying in the image of ourselves that it permits. Living in the truth, in the sense in which John's Gospel gives it, involves the same sober attention to what is there—to the body, the chair, the floor, the voice we hear, the face we see—with all the unsatisfactoriness that this brings. Yet this is what it means to live in that kingdom where Jesus rules, the kingdom that has no frontiers to be defended. Our immersion in the present moment which is God's delivers the world to us—and that world is not the perfect and fully achieved thing we might imagine, but the divided and difficult world we actually inhabit. Only, by the grace of this living in the truth, we are able to say to it at least an echo of the 'yes' that God says, to accept as God accepts.
— Rowan Williams, Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgement
This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.
— Jacques Chardonne
Be ready for make the change. Every time it is not possible to live with single mindset.
— Aditya Pandya
... I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, "a turning point for better or worse" (p. 139).
— Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Sudden changes are always acceptable for me. What a weather !! Happy !!
— Aditya Pandya
People really do not change....they exist...
— Will Leamon
Being stuck serves a spiritual purpose. It's a bountiful harvest for transformation to occur. It tells us that a change is needed. More than any type of outward change, what's really being asked of us is an inner change. It could be a change of heart, change of priorities, a change of beliefs, or even a change of perspective.
— Dana Arcuri, Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
To this day, I remain awestruck by the fact that human beings are capable of this type of metamorphosis. We don’t have to stay stuck displaying the same personality traits over the course of our lifetime but are free to transform into higher expressions of ourselves. Today I can honestly say that I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that human beings are capable of making radical and lasting change. After a decade of coaching individuals and leading groups, I have discovered that if I don’t buy into people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of, I can bypass their public personas and see who they are in their highest expression. With a little effort, I can see their magnificence and their potential no matter what they look like or what condition their emotional, spiritual, or financial world is in. I can see through their acts, their personas, their fears and insecurities. I can see who they are apart from the baggage they carry around. The undeniable fact is that underneath all of our public personas, we already are that which we desire to be. Our only job is to see past our own limitations so that we can return to that which we already are.
— Debbie Ford, The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It
The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.
— Hiba Fatima Ahmad
We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
We cannot change the history of the past.
— Jimmy Carter
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
I studied history at university. My mutinous discontent recalls something I read there on the subject of revolutions. They do not happen, it was argued, when the oppressed class is being maximally ground down by misery, but, rather, when conditions improve. It is the slight relief of pressure which gives the downtrodden the chance to lift their heads out of the slime, to look about them. and become cognisant of the true circumstances of their lives.
— Anna Lyndsey
Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!
— Nike Thaddeus
One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Politics is motion." John Sears
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
If you on the wrong path, change and travel on right direction.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them.
— pleasefindthis
To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Stories change the world.
— A.D. Posey
Change the present then the change the future.
— Matthew Donnelly
Positive impact, positive society.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every person has felt pain,some deeper than others,some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns
— Bluenscottish
If we can change the world let's do it now, not later!
— Deyth Banger
Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.
— Karina Halle, The Lie
Some of the most valued things we have in life come from changes or mistakes. Don't be afraid if you failed or if you lose someone you love, there is always the rainbow after the rain. And remember that all change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.﻿
— Angie karan
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul
Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.
— Constance Chuks Friday
There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and their music changed. Some bands now go seven years without hardly bothering to do anything.
— Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Security is merely an illusion.If you think your schedule, your botox, your insurance, your marriage certificate, your 401K, and the deadbolt on your door is going to keep you safe from change and the happenings of life—think again. Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing can give you solid ground but your own trust in yourself and the purpose of existing-- That is the only solid ground upon which you can stand.
— Kayko Tamaki
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.
— Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great
He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign
— H.W. Brands
We can never control change
—  we can only control our response to change.
All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.
— T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin
If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
If we don’t see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good for you either, eventually; what’s good for you and others but not good for the Earth won’t be good for you or others either, eventually; what’s good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Changing practices is one thing
—  changing minds is quite another
THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING.
— Donald Miller
Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark
—  it will not smolder. It will not change.
When you want something and you don’t have it, it may be a cause of stress to you. However, if we reflect on how we came to have things that were not there originally, we can be excited, delighted, and grateful that we want something even before we have it. Seen from this perspective, wanting something—or more specifically, being able to want something while it is not there yet—is already a gift in itself. !is is why we offer gratitude.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Even though consciousness doesn’t seem to be confined to the human brain within the skull, we do experience consciousness through our brain. The transformation of consciousness to attention is facilitated by your brain. Driving thoughts into action is also processed by your brain. Your brain is the seat of the creative observer inside you.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Don’t fight change
—  appreciate change.
They take you. They treat you. They transform you.
— Dan Carr, New Horizons
Awareness in its pure state is nonlocal; there’s no focal point in it. It is unbounded. Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential