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I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.
— William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
People don't like getting older, but they do like changing
— Tommy Wallach, Thanks for the Trouble
Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.
— James Thornton
I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.
— Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer
Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Oh...why has time changed us?
— Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire
Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
To reject any vast group of one's cultural ancestors in the cause of some current theory is not just arr
—  it's posthumous mass murder. It's the same kind of thinking that makes genocide possible. The masses (albeit the dead masses) and the pathetic little lives they lived are irrelevant compared to this greater purpose we have at hand. Write them out of the record. They never existed....
People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes.""You speak in riddles, aged progenitor.""The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is something that is new forever: you. Every morning of your life and every evening, every moment is new. You have never lived this moment before and you never will again. In this sense the new is also the eternal.
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
When you allow God to change your heart, He will also change your story.
— Gugu Mona
Don’t fear change
—  embrace it!
Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
— Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea
I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.
— Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain: A Woman's Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of Growing Up Australian
SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
The winds shifted, and Abraxos rode them, rising higher into the sky, the darkened kingdom below passing by in a blur.Changing winds—a changing world.Perhaps a changing Thirteen, too. And herself.She didn't know what to make of it,But Manon hoped they'd all survive it.She hoped.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
Our struggle has inspired oppressed people the world over, because if former slaves can make the most powerful nation face itself, there's a chance for everyone else. In a twist, our rage becomes hope for others.
— Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Alterations in the environment place us under personal stress. Changes in our routines and the physical, social, cultural, and economic environment forces us to make decisive decisions, we cannot continue our robotic ways. We must adapt to fresh encounters with the peripheral world. Variation in our external domain brings about shocking revolutions of our internal realm of thoughts and emotions.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.
— Jordan Maxwell, Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs
If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.
— Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.
— Terrence Real, How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties.
— Auliq-Ice
Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar, Heart of the World
The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changed, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.
— C.M. McKenna, Badger
CHANGE is not to expect, it is certain -have Food and go to Bed
— Praveen Chenna
Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations.
— Gugu Mona
You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.
— Juliet Marillier, Foxmask
You really want to see change?Start by donating one dollar to a charity
— Charmaine J. Forde
If I am in that position, you will see change because I have experience change as a Christian.
— Dr. Christ Asabor
Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.
— Jean Cocteau
When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you.
— Auliq-Ice
The only bearable thing about being human is that you can change, the second you feel like. Get it through your head that you changes, and cut yourself some slack before you fucking choke to death from all the apologies in your throat.
— C.M. McKenna
Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.
— Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes the hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.
— Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
The winds of potential change blow constantly through our existence altering potentialities until a tipping point or nexus shakes our thread into a different weave, a new existence. It is our pattern-sensing consciousnesses that tricks us into believing remaining static is an option, that this day is like the next or the one before, as if the chaos that change will inevitably bring can be avoided. It's a comforting lie . . .
— Larry J. Dunlap, Night People, Book 1
Don't wait for the world to change, be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Ishwar Akash Balloo
Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Chameleon Is The Animal Which Change According To Surrounding, Feature Similar To Human
— Ax-n Arshed
I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
— Joshilyn Jackson, The Opposite of Everyone
Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.
— John Bruna
The Joy of one SUCCESS can overcome the Heartaches of twenty Failures.
— Auliq-Ice
Those that succeed most in life are those that see wisdom in life as a positive venture.
— Auliq-Ice
Opportunity exist for those who can observe trends, for this world is a trending place.
— Auliq-Ice
To procure solutions that will marvel you and the world, just think outside the box.
— Auliq-Ice
In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war.
— Auliq-Ice
Change can only stop, if THINKING stops.
— Auliq-Ice
You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.
— Sarah Morgan, Sleepless in Manhattan
But to find a lingering unread missive from someone no longer living, and someone whose life had been so deeply entwined with one’s own, raised the possibility that the past could never be a fully settled matter. It meant that your own past could be altered without your action or consent, that the story of your self that you continually told back to yourself could be revised by force, making you into another person who you would, perhaps, prefer not to become.
— Dexter Palmer
Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to describe a single event. But true homecoming requires more time. It seems to be a process rather than a moment. Perhaps we come home the way the earth comes home to the sun. It could be that homecoming is always a return and our understanding of home deepens with each encounter.
— Christie Purifoy, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
Never feel intimidated by defeat nor death, but rather intimidate life with your dreams.
— Auliq-Ice
The SECRET to unravelling Life's MYSTERIES is thinking.
— Auliq-Ice
Glory in your small dreams, because inside them something bigger may emerge.
— Auliq-Ice
Keep hoping in tomorrow & one day tomorrow shall manifest your dreams.
— Auliq-Ice
Thinking makes man to be god & GOD to dwell in Man.
— Auliq-Ice
Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes.
— Auliq-Ice
Change becomes a waste for those who do not desire to learn from it. It pushes us to bring out our personal best. It makes us realize that we are uniquely different with the capabilities to grow and shine brightly.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
I choose to be a victor, and not a victim of change.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
The only way we can divorce fears in our lives is by marrying our desires.
— Auliq-Ice
But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.
— Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try.
— Diana Gabaldon
Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
This transformationbegins in the spinningof the soul,hanged upside down,massively re-arranged,motion light.By inch the radicaltakes place the old is decomposed, the gruesome has been destroyed melting into something beautiful.What has seemed to harm youbrought you to life.- CHANGE, A Poem
— Tara Estacaan
I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.
— Laura Moriarty, The Chaperone
I think about it all the time, about what makes everyone who they are, and if we went back in time and changed anything, whether or not it would make a difference. Would it make us better or worse, or would we just stay exactly the same because we were always destined to end up this way no matter what happened throughout our lives? ~ Evie Snow
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side
There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos.
— Nikki Rowe
Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.
— Kamand Kojouri
A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you're mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.
— Brad Montague, Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome
I have a face where half is mine and half is not, it is hard to see a difference when you stand in front of me under the light as both my eyes shines equally. But the day you step into the darkness I hold inside me you will see my face the way it is and it will end up changing your whole world related to me forever.
— Akshay Vasu
All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black, but because we believe.
— Auliq Ice
I'm not just going to love you, I'm going to love every version of you, everything you will become, everything you will grow and change into.
— Veronica Larsen, Entangle
If you compose your dreams into a music, then your dreams will become the music you will always love to sing.
— Auliq-Ice
We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love.
— Kamand Kojouri
The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Until you learn to think global,your fort shall remain your local domain.
— Auliq-Ice
One day I was through Strachan’s Corner just hanging out, and they must have picked up Scrooge earlier for a pep talk, so they were now dropping him back home in one of their police vehicle. Supt. Strachan was in the back seat talking with him, while a male officer was driving. So I asked her, what were some of the things you used to say to Scrooge? I used to tell him it is not worth it, You are hurting people. You are only going to end up in jail for the rest of your life, or you are going to end up in the grave. I knew that he was listening to me. I would talk to him and encourage him. My other colleagues used to say I was soft on crime because of what I was doing, but I could be tuff. I am a mother of two sons; just ask my sons how tuff I can be. If I feel that I have done the best that I can, and cannot do no more than that is it. This was what I was telling those kids down there.I told them if you do not change, you are going to die. Sad to say, that is what happened to some of them eventually. The best came out of you and others in another way. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Mankind willfully changing the global electromagnetic radiation environment has created what I expect will become known as the man-made evolution era.
— Steven Magee
Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution.
— Steven Magee
When I hear and see young men like you and Troit, who have turned their lives around, it makes me feel good. We need to learn to love one another; there is just too much hate in this world. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up.
— Samuel Gyekye Mensah
Fill the world with acid rain clouds and you will be in a new era of evolution, due to the changed electromagnetic frequencies emissions and light emissions from the lightning clouds. A new era of global environmental radiation!
— Steven Magee
Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.
— Auliq-Ice
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
— Angela Davis | Presence by Amy Cuddy
Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief.
— Auliq-Ice
Today's temporary disappointment means tomorrows permanent appointment.
— Auliq-Ice
You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
It’s amazing how drastically your life can change when you stop accepting shit you hate.
— Steve Maraboli
Wishes don’t change the world. Only actions will do that job.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
— André Gide, Lafcadio's Adventures
I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.
— Omar Al Busaidy
Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.
— Criss Jami
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
— Winston S. Churchill
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
I am well aware that certain exercises, tasks setup by the facilitator, can practically force the group to more of a here-and-now communication or more of a feeling level. There are leaders who do these very skillfully, and with good effect at the time. However, I am enough of a scientist-clinician to make many casual follow-up inquiries, and I know that frequently the lasting result of such procedures is not nearly as satisfying as the immediate effect. At it's best it may lead to discipleship (which I happen not to like): "What a marvelous leader he is to have made me open up when I had no intention of doing it!" It can also lead to a rejection of the whole experience. "Why did I do those silly things he asked me to?" At worst, it can make the person feel that his private self has been in some way violated, and he will be careful never to expose himself to a group again. From my experience I know that if I attempt to push a group to a deeper level it is not, in the long run, going to work.
— Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups
I am willing for the participant to commit or not commit himself to the group. If a person wishes to remain psychologically on the sidelines, he has my implicit permission to do so. The group itself may or may not be willing for him to remain in this stance but personally I am willing. One skeptical college administrator said that the main things he had learned was that he could withdraw from personal participation, be comfortable about it, and realize that he would not be coerced. To me, this seemed a valuable learning and one that would make it much more possible for him actually to participate at the next opportunity. Recent reports on his behavior, a full year later, suggest that he gained and changed from his seeming nonparticipation.
— Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups
You sit behind a computer all day. You see a name on your screen – not realizing that this is a person with a life, a family, friends, hopes, and dreams. Then you destroy that life by electing them; and I get it. There’s only so much you can do. But once the day is over, you go home, collect a paycheck, and forget about it. That’s what I can’t seem to understand.
— Tess Alley, The Divinity Bureau
There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence "directive" if people wish to accuse me of this. I am centered in the group member who is speaking, and am unquestionably much less interested in the details of his quarrel with his wife, or of his difficulties on the job, or his disagreement with what has just been said, than in the meaning these experience have for him now and the feeling they arouse in him. It is to these meanings and feelings that I try to respond.
— Carl R. Rogers
Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we’ll never stop digging until we find our gold.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
Prayer does not alter that which God has determined
—  it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.
But... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.
— Sam Gayton
Change makers don’t think change making is someone else’s job, but rather their calling to fulfill. They take responsibility and face challenges.
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
The scariest part of discovering that you have the power to change your life, is not doubting if you can do what it takes to achieve your goals: it is the realization that you are now responsible, and there’s nothing out of yourself to blame.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Be you.That, my friend,is the change you wantto become in the world.
— Frederick Espiritu, One Whole Naked Me
Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that's the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Trust
The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. And, for that, the world needs us. It needs us to get invested. It needs us to be more grateful. It needs us to take things personally! And, I know together we can make it happen. I know wherever you’ll go; you’ll stand for change, for peace, for justice, for equality, for each other, and for a better tomorrow. You’ll put in your brick. I know. I know.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
This approach seems self-defeating when you consider that the goal is love - opening and merging your one life with the lives of others. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.
— Moira Wegel
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.
— Karen Horney
Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you.
— Cherie Priest, I Am Princess X
It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
— Vironika Tugaleva
As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies.
— lauren klarfeld
How things change,’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.
— Judith Arnopp, Peaceweaver
Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other youthful loves, till one day their earlier self walked like a ghost in its old home and made the new furniture ghastly. Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.
— Rick Yancey
Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
Be brave to fight for change no matter how hard it might be, first step you take will bring you closer to your goal
— Regillio Hardjopawiro
A bitter critic is the sweetest corrector.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously.
— Jay Woodman
No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us.
— Auliq-Ice
The more things change, the more they stay the same. And, that's a whole other story.
— Vivian Swift, When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
Change takes time. But, it also takes people.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
I’d always heard people say and I’m sure you heard it too, “Change takes time.” But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, “Change takes time. But, it also takes people.” People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn’t happen by itself.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Change needs us. Change needs people who are willing to invest themselves and their time and their energy and all that they can in making it happen. And, remember, if we don’t quit; if we choose to walk the more difficult path; if we refuse to give up, no matter how long the road or how steep the climb; we will make change happen.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
In modern time slowness is new sickness.
— Amit Kalantri
I think adults must get sort of worn away over time, like rocks out at sea, but remain who they are, just slower and grayer with those funny vertical wrinkles in front of their ears. But the young are a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train.
— Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall
I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.
— Kamand Kojouri
If you move enough, your muscles change and grow. So does your mind. The brain initiates movement. But it is, in its turn, remade by movement. New cells are born; new vessels sprout. The same process operates body-­wide. No cell in your body is unaffected by motion. Your very DNA is changed.
— Gretchen Reynolds, The First 20 Minutes: The Surprising Science of How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter and Live Longer
I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.
— Eve Chase
The nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.
— Auliq-Ice
Everyone wants to change the world but nobody wants to start with themselves.
— Moosa Rahat
If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Reinvention is my philosophy, if you want to call it that,” he says, looking out the window. “Imagination is the key to creating a life that is ever new.” Stanley turns his eyes to me. “We are each of us a changeling person,” he says. “We are not going to be the same decade after decade. Wisdom results from confronting not only one’s desires and capacities but also one’s limitations.” “The Layers,” one of Stanley’s best-loved poems, is his crystallization of this wisdom. I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. Oh, I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered! How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends, those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face. Yet I turn, I turn, exulting somewhat, with my will intact to go wherever I need to go, and every stone on the road is precious to me. In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.” Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.
— Seal the Smile
Throughout her life, she held firm to her belief that even the smallest acts of kindness and generosity by the least of us can cause a ripple effect to change the world. Nina Wirk, Human Again
— Nina Wirk
He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-the-same, of no-way-back, made him afraid. When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel. Hold on if you can, he told himself. Cling to yesterdays. Leave your nail-marks in the grey slope as you slide.
— Salman Rushdie
The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted.
— Auliq Ice
This is new. Old Quinn would not have worn a skirt on her first day of sophomore year. Old Quinn would have worn a pair of jeans (hole in the knee? even better) and a t-shirt advertising the Providence Prep volleyball team, or some other sports team I didn’t play for.
— Selena Brooks
Tomorrow will be a better day, we shall be safe ...only if we are safe today to reach tomorrow, things would change with a brighter light.
— Auliq-Ice
Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.
— Kamand Kojouri
You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.
— Tiffany Winfree
My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?
— Nikki Rowe
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.
— Criss Jami
I have no use for these other loves.Seal them shut in jarsand place them in the pantry. A reserve of love.Thank them for their love.They are so kind.Perhaps store them in the fridgeFor others to take.They say love is a panacea. I know it is not.Flakes of snow,no two are alike.When I am down on my knees, hopeless and angry,for the world no longer makes sense,I won't look in the pantry or fridge.It is your hand pressing on my shoulderthat makes me whole,makes me forget.What trouble? What world?
— Kamand Kojouri
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
— Kamand Kojouri
People fail because one of two reasons:1: They don't know what to do to improve2: They know what to do and simply aren't doing itEither way you can take action and change your life.
— Rob Liano
Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.
— Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy
There was a tiny house in townThat had always stayed the same,Home to a girl wearing a sundressCalling each flower by name.It was the calm within the chaos,The sun around which we revolved,As stubborn as a stoneIn its refusal to evolve.I thought it had foreverTrapped within its weathered walls,Watching all the livesThey built around its rise and fall.But one day with no warningThe world felt shallower and strange,And the view outside my windowSeemed to all at once have changed.I ran with lungs near burstingTo that tiny house in town,Yet the ashes of foreverWas the only thing I found.Walking home it felt the worldWas made of me and salty tears,And the woman in a sundressWho watched me slowly disappear.
— Emily Hanson
From surfeit to loss is a short line.
— Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
— Kamand Kojouri
Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her moist hair and greasy spectacles, her strained fingers that dissected frogs and carried coffee to picket lines, her flat eyes that only turned toward the stars to estimate their chemical tonnage. Earth and air could not be more opposite than Mildred and Holly, yet in my head they acquired a Siamese twinship, and the thread of thought that had sewn them together ran like this: the average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul--desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic. I imagined them in a restaurant of the future, Mildred still studying the menu for its nutritional values, Holly still gluttonous for everything on it. It would never be different. They would walk through life and out of it with the same determined step that took small notice of those cliffs at the left.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the only way to do it. Therefore, I say, let's try to get it done. And everybody says, 'difficult, difficult,' and nobody lifts a finger to try. And the only real difficulty is that everybody for one reason or another says that it's difficult. It's against human nature. Granted! Every decent thing is. It's socialism. Who cares?
— H.G. Wells
There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardships—challenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldn’t stop. He had to endure. The path had not changed. It was he who had changed.
— Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow.
— Kemi Sogunle
Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.
— Todd Stocker
From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the — largely unconscious — embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.
— Fritjof Capra
Life changes therefore think of change when change is a must. Change such things which you have to change when you have to change things for the longer you think of changing things, the more things keep changing. The best tomorrow is today! Be swift and think of change!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You don't want to change, you just say "No" and again "No" and you continue to watch stuff which you know... then you ask why this guy is clever and you say that you are stupid. You aren't stupid, you made yourself stupid nothing else has made you stupid. The path was choosen by somebody or you and you just accepted it without to change it!
— Deyth Banger
The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.
— John Connolly, A Time of Torment
I believe that the wolf can change everything, if he just want to change.
— Deyth Banger
Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.
— Tiffany Winfree
Reality can be mischievous at times, fragile, fleeting; with the potential to change vastly without warning.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming?” Mandy questioned sadly. “All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the only places left where it still had that nostalgic small town atmosphere but now… I’ve only been away for a year, how could things have changed so quickly? I mean, how can the world accept it?”“C'est la vie,” said Alecto, looking extremely tired as he stared out the window at the late November maple keys fluttering down from vibrantly red trees lining the streets on either side of the windshield.
— Rebecca McNutt, Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
Harnessing change is the most valuable tool available for creating the reality that you clearly desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older.
— Criss Jami
Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( " Did not expect it would ever happen, there" )
— Erik Pevernagie
If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.
— Jacque Fresco
I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas
One day, this Establishment will fall. It will not do so on its own terms or of its own accord, but because it has been removed by a movement with a credible alternative that inspires. For those of us who want a different sort of society, it is surely time to get our act together.
— Owen   Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.
— Amy Neftzger, War of Words
Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything
— Kamand Kojouri
You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
After all relationships had sell-by dates. Sometimes, the ones with the most passion were the ones to burn out faster. Others had a sweet and long-winding coil which burned with slow amicability. At times, it was true, people rekindled a dying ember with a new flame. But they hardly ever noticed the rekindling had come after some time of estrangement - whether physical or emotional. Because people needed newness to make a thing last indefinitely. To make it really last. And because Jan didn't like letting people go, she knew to look for the signs of love's waning. So she could tell how to ease it down slowly into its grave and keep her lovers as friends. Because she really believed people were meant to cross paths. People were meant to stay in your life. There was a reason for all encounters. And relationships had to be cosseted, no matter their shelf life. But they had to be allowed to change shape and form. It had to be given space to grow into something different.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.
— Kamand Kojouri
I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
When you’re a kid, you don’t think about big stuff that could change your life. You think about small things that might terrify you –like a bad report card or missing a goal in front of all your friends or your friends no longer wanting to play with you. Because that's the biggest stuff you know. The biggest disappointments are all tied to this small little universe of yours, because bigger things cannot fit into a small universe. If you wanted bigger things in there you needed to have more room –or make more room. Perhaps you thought about your parents or your pets dying, which was rare. But all you knew was you would be terribly sad and lonely. And on those occasions when people or pets actually died, someone usually came along and distracted you from feeling too much of your actual feelings. Grownups did that –they never left you alone to feel alone or think alone too much. They tended to think you are too small to know how to think and feel in big heaps, so they took parts of your heap onto themselves. To help – but in the long run –it doesn’t help at all. Because if you do not see, or feel or think, or taste the bitter things in life, you don’t know they exist. You have not seen enough of the world to know how terrible it could be. And unfortunately for Sam, this inability to process change persisted into adulthood.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
— E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear.
— Albert Camus
Everyone wishes for a better life, and yet they want nothing to change.
— K. Weikel, The One-Hundred: Part 2 - The Beneath
But though hast come and all will surely change.
— Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol