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the path of change is unpredictable.
— Barbara Marciniak
It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.
— Timothy D. Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide
[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
— Anthony Lane
We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.
— Timothy D. Lane, How People Change: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace, Leader's Guide
I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.
— Kathe Koja, Kissing the Bee
Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.
— Cherie Colyer, Embrace
When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.
— Rebecca McKinsey
Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality
I like the idea of differenttheres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,a Bronx where people talklike violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehowkind, perhaps in the nookof a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayedanyone.
— Bob Hicok
I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.
— Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all intelligences do. If we do not act on higher motivations, then we can justify any action, no matter how horrible, as necessary for our survival. We are endlessly caught between the need for high moral absolutes—which will fail enough that any absolute can be demonstrated as false—and our tendency for individual judgments to degenerate into self-gratifying and unethical narcissism. Trying to force absolutes on others results in death and destruction, yet failing to act beyond one's self also leads to death and destruction, generally a lot sooner.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Parafaith War
People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.
— M. Ageyev, Novel with Cocaine
It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.
— Terry Crowley, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
One of the great constants in life is change.
— Heracleitus
Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.
— Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.
— Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But events on the same scale, or nearly so, no longer seem to have that power; moneyed interests may have become too entrenched, elites too self-seeking, institutions too feeble, and the public too polarized and passive for the country to be shocked into fundamental change.
— George Packer
My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, anarcho-pacifist…I wasn’t interested in any religion and the difference between ‘religiosity’ and ‘spirituality’ was lost to me. Having spent some time of my childhood with a loving grandmother with many superstitions and beliefs, I had a sense the world was not composed of solely material things and there was more to life than I could see. But the truth is, I wasn’t interested in understanding the world. I only wanted to change it.
— Elif Shafak
It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.
— Michael Stein, In the Age of Love
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civility, to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood, offering at the same time to supply him with fishing tackle, and pointing out those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport. Mrs. Gardiner, who was walking arm in arm with Elizabeth, gave her a look expressive of her wonder. Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself. Her astonishment, however, was extreme; and continually was she repeating, "Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me, it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me.
— Jane Austen
Everything changes your life.
— Melanie Tem, The Man on the Ceiling
Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.
— Jon Scott
Growth is a part of change.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Immeasurable change is nobody's merit.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Change is never convenient. I'm talking about acceptance here. Don't be misguided into thinking change is going to be easy. If you're facing change then you're challenging a norm, your norm. You've adapted to that and now it's being challenged. It's being turned inside out and upside down. You may feel that can't quite find your footing. It's all foreign. You may feel lost in it, quite unsure of yourself, unsure of what to do, or how to do it. Don't worry. Everything new was once like this, and you made it through. You'll find a way. Have faith. Keep hope in your heart. If you want to get to the other side of anything you need to work through and endure change. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. Change is never comfortable. It takes time and patience. It takes self-love and acceptance. It takes grace and self-forgiveness. Take it one step at a time. Break it down. You'll make it to the other side.
— Akiroq Brost
What is eternal is the cloud drifting slowly out of sight.
— Marty Rubin
And when the clouds do clear awayGet a momentary chance to seeThe thing I've been trying to beat to deathThe soft creature that I used to beThe better animal I used to be
— John Darnielle
Let me take you to the places you don't want to go.Let me thrill you and kill you and create you and make you.Let me rape your soul and destroy what you had been. Let me see you transformed into something dark and new
— Levon Peter Poe
It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.
— Peter S. Beagle, Two Hearts
That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.
— Richie Norton
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
that's what kills a man: lack of change.
— Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
Things change. People change. Everything changes. The universe is in a flux. Energy reinventing itself constantly.
— Gina Linko, Flower Moon
I want to visit the snow in Antarctica before global warming turns it into a tropical paradise.
— Steven Magee
Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.
— M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!
— Nabil Sabio Azadi
To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing to keep doing it
— Brent M. Jones
Your thoughts are your reality. Change them and change your world!
— Avina Celeste
To change the world, we must look inward. If we fill our hearts with peace and love, we will see the change.
— Avina Celeste
Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good.
— Avina Celeste
Life won't change if your mind doesn't change. A better life comes with a better mind.
— Avina Celeste
You're safe, it's only change.
— Sheridan Jobbins, Wish You Were Here
The fact that you are alive is what matters most because no matter what your situation is, you still have a chance to change it.
— Gift Gugu  Mona
Change comes about when you become what you are, not when you try to become what you are not.
— Arnold R. Beisser
Nothing in life is guaranteed except change, but I guess that could change.
— Brent M. Jones
Changing circumstances always present great opportunities as well as new challenges. Once you recognise the relationship, you’ll understand the need for passion and persistence (KR, 1995)
— Kieran Revell, Release Your Unstoppable Power: The Journey Continues...
But moving from enabling the business to being the business is challenging work. It means changing governance models, organizational structures, delivery methodologies and hiring practices. It means transforming IT people from technologists to strategists, from constructing hard lines around IT to creating an environment devoid of organizational boundaries, and from clamping down on employees attempts to develop their own technology to embracing end-user innovation. It also means driving change in the most difficult of all arenas: the mindset, the psyche, the most deeply held ways that we understand our jobs, our success, and our professional identity.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
Anger and animosity cannot enshrine what was once wonderful...
— Mala Naidoo, Vindication Across Time
Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as tradition affects us, we too affect tradition and culture, and we change it.
— Sharanya Haridas
I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicycle races.
— Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that change is the natural order of the universe, and one must change with it.
— Margaret Wander Bonanno, Catalyst of Sorrows
Nothing ends. There is only transformation, ugly as it may be.
— Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn
I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child. My first born will be my only treasure, the one who knew who i was before the mess entered our lives and also the one who adapted with me to a reality we weren't certain of oh and lots of plants and plants and plants.
— Nikki Rowe
When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle, wardrobe, the type of car I drove, being seen with the right people; and if I made it unscathed, the estates I would own, and how the media would be singing my name like Urbanas’s. I saw my father apologizing for not supporting me. But life is a twisty bastard. When I called it quits on robbery, drugs, hedonism, and paedophilia and most probably necromancy—the ‘scarletest’ of sins according to me—I made a vow never to live a profane life again, not even the most subtle of snares would entrap me. I had seen them all, even in their disguises, and I knew them when I saw them.
— Vincent de Paul, TWISTED TIMES: Son of Man
Life throws up all kinds of people. Some may be kind, gentle, caring and loving; others may be indifferent who live through without making any difference to this world and there yet others who are loud, demanding as well as dominating. It is the last variety that always takes others for granted; they WILL have their way even if it means trampling others and even hurting their feeling in the bargain. They are like predators- beasts of prey. They will pounce on the weak, and won’t hesitate to rip them apart, if it suits them. They sniff out the kind hearted and caring people. Don’t waste your energy in trying to mould them because, firstly, it’s very difficult to change them and secondly it’s most certainly not YOUR duty to change anyone. What you should do instead is to send out a very clear message that your kindness, your gentleness or your caring nature are NOT your weaknesses- they are your strength. This nature of yours gives you the courage and the strength to do what you do. Believe me; they do not have the courage to take you on because they are like bullies who are basically cowards at heart. Let kindness and gentleness be your strength.
— Latika Teotia
Change is hard. Logically, we know what we should do, but our feelings about doing it make our decision for us. How you feel in the moment is almost never aligned with your goals and dreams. If you only act when you feel like it, you will never get what you want.You must learn how to separate what you feel from the actions that you take.You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
if you will grow, everything will grow with you.
— Sesan Kareem
It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie."It does?" Stephanie doubted it."Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not in quite the same way as you, but that's sort of the point. The curse - if you will - it happens to everyone, but not to any two people in the same way. And no one likes it, no matter who's waiting inside.
— Laurie Frankel, This is How It Always Is
You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!
— Germany Kent
People change. Thank God. I can't imagine a world where everyone's the same as they were in high school.
— Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
When you see disavowal, change it with your hands, if you can’t, change it with your words, and if you can’t as well, change it with your heart.” -131
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
Don’t hope the world will change, but we have to be change. ..., Allah said He will not change people’s fate, until the people themselves make the change. If you want something and want to be something, don’t just dream and pray, but make it, change it, do it here. And now!” -148
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.
— Ken Wytsma, Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.
— Dan Brown, Inferno
WHEN A BIRD IS ALIVE... IT EATS ANTS....WHEN BIRD IS DEAD...ANTS EAT THE BIRD. TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES CAN CHANGE AT ANYTIME. DON'T DEVALUE OR HURT ANYONE IN LIFE. YOU MAY BE POWERFUL TODAY.' BUT REMEMBER. TIME IS MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU.!!! ONE TREE MAKES A MILLION MATCH STICKS...BUT ONLY ONE MATCH STICK NEEDED TO BURN A MILLION TREES...
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Don't try to compete, Create!Don't try to compare, Dominate!Don't try to complain, Change!And don't just try, Commit!This is the moment that can change your life forever!
— Farshad Asl
it's unexpected pain brings change in a person's life. this change brings slowly transformation in same person
— litymunshi
I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.
— Alice Hoffman
As Waterman has noted: In today’s business environment, more than in any preceding era, the only constant is change. Successful organizations effectively manage change, continuously adapting their bureaucracies, strategies, systems, products, and cultures to survive the shocks and prosper from the forces that decimate the competition.
— Fred David, Strategic Management:Concepts and Cases, Global Edition
Everything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse.
— Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest
If life has not changed or taught you anything, you haven't been living it right!
— Trishna Damodar
Your teachersAre all around you.All that you perceive,All that you experience,All that is given to youor taken from you,All that you love or hate,need or fearWill teach you--If you will learn.God is your firstand your last teacher.God is your harshest teacher:subtle,demanding.Learn or die.
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
You are as you are until you're not. You change when you want to change. You put your ideas into action in the timing that is best. That's just how it happens.And what I think we all need more than anything is this: permission to be wherever the fuck we are when we're there.You're not a robot. You can't just conjure up motivation when you don't have it. Sometimes you're going through something. Sometimes life has happened. Life! Remember life? Yeah, it teaches you things and sometimes makes you go the long way around for your biggest lessons.You don't get to control everything. You can wake up at 5 a.m. every day until you're tired and broken, but if the words or the painting or the ideas don't want to come to fruition, they won't. You can show up every day to your best intentions, but if it's not the time, it's just not the fucking time. You need to give yourself permission to be a human being.
— Jamie Varon
Every change is a win-win situation if you allow it to take its natural course.
— Haresh Sippy
Change is the essence of life
—  it makes you think anew.
Times, they are a-changing. Change accordingly, the sooner the better.
— Haresh Sippy
If you want to be strong challenge yourself to something that makes you feel weak.
— Toni Sorenson
[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.
— John Hope Franklin
Change is the only universal law.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all fromthe wicked game of change: for love dreads change more than it doesdestruction.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not–untender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.
— Winston Graham, The Four Swans
If we come to Jesus Christ, He completely change us.
— Laiah Gifty Akita
Better be a chameleon to face this ever changing world.
— Haresh Sippy
Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the good times roll in your existence!
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
How to change the world:• spread positivity• bring people up instead of dragging them down• treat others the way you wish to be treated
— Germany Kent
Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine
We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
— Denis Hachey, Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation, if not a new life. This imaginary baptism, the immersion in purity, the elevation of my being above the filth in which I'd been mired and, overnight, this sense of responsibility, made me into a different man. The convict's complexes that make him hear his chains and suspect he's being watched even after he's freed, everything I'd seen, gone through, suffered, everything that was making me tarnished, rotten and dangerous, passively obedient on the surface but terribly dangerous in rebellion, all that had disappeared as if by a miracle.
— Henri Charrière, Papillon
Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet that's where revolutions start! And it's the only way revolutions can continue, if we keep looking inward, looking at how others might see us. That's what happened when I met Sofia. I saw myself the way she saw me.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Fortune-teller tea. Give it a sip!"The liquid was pink and smelled of strawberries, but when Maddie drank it, the flavor was deep and a little bitter, followed by a sudden burst of sweetness.Her father returned. "Well?" he asked."It started out as black licorice and then melted into butterscotch," she said."Oh, my girl, the tea is telling you that this is the year to keep your ear to the ground and listen for surprises. Change is coming!"Maddie's stomach was full of thoughts and her head full of butterflies. She checked her watch again. She couldn't wait for it all to begin.
— Shannon Hale, Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection
Too many people live miserable lives, but they don’t do anything to change them.
— Denis Hachey, Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
A positive is just two negatives going in two different directions. So, if something doesn't work, change tact, and come at it from a different direction. You never know, it may just work.That's being positive for ya!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.
— Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon
When you change your dress,you want to look your best.But when you change your lover,it's simply for another.
— Anthony T Hincks
For example, if you think you are a certain way as a person and that is just who you are and you don't have the power to change, that will become true for you. Whatever image, thoughts or words you continuously play in your conscious mind, your soul (subconscious) will believe. So think the best. Suggest the best.
— Machel Shull
Affirmations take our thoughts to a more protective and powerful place. By affirming good, by affirming daily gratitude, you, yourself will find more peace from giving your thoughts a break from the worry cycle.
— Machel Shull
That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect.
— Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
With every circumstance, there is grace for change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
No Goodbye'The floods of tears,Flow for thee,As I remember how it used to be.Your gentle touch,Your tender caress,Your scented perfume,Your tender kiss.But things do change,In the blink of an eye,An errant driver,No goodbyes.All I remember,Is how it was,Before that fatal night,When all was lost."I love you.
— Anthony T. Hincks
If you want to change something, whether in a relationship, work, or anywhere, identify and focus on the few most important bits, and don't throw in extras to mess it up.
— Jay Woodman
Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.
— NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.
— Anthony T. Hincks
It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” ("Things needing to be changed")
— Erik Pevernagie
One day I hope to hear "this is the world we live in" used in a positive light.
— Karishma Magvani
I think that positivity— real positivity— is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butterfly: caterpillar, cocoon, winged creature. When I look at a butterfly, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty! A mind that decided: "I'm going to become better, I'm not going to be afraid of the dark, I'm going to roll myself up in this thing that I am and I will come out winged and colourful." A butterfly can never become a butterfly unless the caterpillar realises that it needs to become one. This, to me, is true positivity. I don't like what others do— the way they paint on colours and tape on wings. I like what the caterpillars do. They truly BECOME.
— C. JoyBell C.
Sometimes in the winds of change we find our true direction.
— Unknown
I think that sitting there talking to Dan was a thing that had a great impression on my life. I know that being an idiot and all, I ain't supposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never too the time to talk to me about it. It was Dan's philosophy that everything that happen to us, or for that matter, to anything everywhere, is controlled by natural laws that govern the universe. His views were extremely complicated, but the gist of what he said begun to change my whole outlook on things.
— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a landscape, lived on and in for centuries. The land itself like a body submitted to military discipline. Or like a mind, tutored along certain acceptable pathways, so that finally all that lies outside certain avenues of thought begins to assume an air of unreality.The land of course is still there. Only now it has receded into the background. It is what you see in your peripheral vision as you speed down the highway. The complexity of it, the intricate presence of it, has been reduced now to a single word, jungle. If once you breathed its breath or slept surrounded by its dark or wakened with its light, you no longer remember. You tell yourself life has improved. The jungle is in the past. To enter it is to stray from the path, or to be pulled down into some unknown depth. It is an exotic place, intriguing but also unpredictable, uncontrolled, threatening the well-paved order of existence.
— Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
Change is your gateway to opportunity, opportunities will lead you to a new and fulfilling life.
— Amanda Ashton-Booth
There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I share. When I look at them, I think: to prize traditionalism above all else in a church that began in revolution is to do a great violence to it. But I feel that same ache for the past in myself: to uphold the columns of literature, grammar, the Western tradition. The English language began as an upheaval; I am not protecting it when I try to guard it against change. The Jesus Christ of it, Chaucer, walked across the water telling dirty jokes, made twenty stories stretch to feed a million people, spelled the word "cunt" five ways, performed miracles. Any innovation I put down on paper is an attempt to remind myself of this. I am not modern. I was not born to blaze new paths or bring down walls. I break form against my nature to tell myself that revolution, too, is a tradition that must be upheld.
— Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir
The digital detox isn't what you think it is. It's like a diet. Once you go on it, you feel better until you log into social media again. If you want real change, figure out what works best for your lifestyle.
— J.R. Rim
Danny explained, “Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder than the winners.” How did you get the losers to accept change? The prevailing strategy on the Israeli farms – which wasn’t working very well – was to bully or argue with the people who needed to change. The psychologist Kurt Lewin had suggested persuasively that, rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine a plank held in place by a spring on either side of it, Danny told the students. How do you move it? Well, you can increase the force on one side of the plank. Or you can reduce the force on the other side. “In one case the overall tension is reduced,” he said, “and in the other it is increased.” And that was a sort of proof that there was an advantage in reducing the tensions. “It’s a key idea,” said Danny. “Making it easy to change.
— Michael   Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
We should be ready for a change.
— Deyth Banger, Deep Legend
If you're a square peg in a society full of round holes, it's time to change the playing board.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Fuck normal.” [Varick] took [Kieran’s] crumpled wrapper and slowly straightened it out on the table. He began to fold it in half, then half again, and finally one last time in half, making a neat square. “Normal is a societal construct that is created by people. There is no consistency across civilizations or cultures. What is normal to one person is not normal to another. It once was normal to own slaves and be prejudiced against people of color like yourself. It was once normal to make women wear dresses and cover themselves. And long ago it was normal to cut off someone’s hand for stealing instead of putting them in jail. Eventually, all societal constructs fall to new ideas. Normal is one of them.” Kieran stared at him with his mouth slightly open. “Now, just fold up your silly wrapper like you want to.
— Beverly L. Anderson, Stolen Innocence
Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.
— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.
— Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
Like a needle jabbed into your arm, reality stings you, hurting you more than your skin and flesh. You realize that you're nobody. The electricity's gone out, the darkness is your sudden enemy...you have to protect yourself from the dark. Otherwise the world goes out, along with the artificial lights from the power plant. The night once again disintegrates into atoms, changes from cultivated to wild, fitting itself afterward into its original black hues, its cat skin.
— Georgi Tenev, Party Headquarters
Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
When she transformed into a butterfly,the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness.They wanted her to change back into what she always had been.But she had wings.
— Dean Jackson, The Poetry of Oneness: Illuminating Awareness of the True Self
Well, you change as you get older, especially at this time in your life. You become more yourself, hopefully. And sometimes that changes the dynamic, even with people you love. So it's not that you were wrong. You were right for that time. But you grow up and you grow out of relationships. Even the ones you thought, at one point, might be forever.
— Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us
We did everything correctly, following the established plan approved by management!' Just as under socialism--we do and did everything correctly, yet life, the world, continues to collapse beneath our feet like a reactor that has entered a runaway state of nuclear meltdown. Is there any need to explain what those two great liberating words mean: chain reaction?
— Georgi Tenev, Party Headquarters
It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...
— John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.
— Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And she does take a form of revenge on both her father and her suitor: she refuses to give in to them. In the end, she has her triumph.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.
— Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till
We can only trust God to change hearts and lives, and let Him use us to stand up for Him, and to love the hurting.
— Teresa Schultz, The Bible In Poetry,
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round . . . The sky is round and I have heard the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power whirls, birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds. And they were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop.
— Chief Black Elk
CHANGE WITH THE TIMES...The early bird will benefit the most,the ones who don't will be left out.
— Haresh Sippy
People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
If not now, then when?
— John E. Lewis
Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
In order to fit our needs and wants, we are constantly adjusting and altering our behaviors and feelings. Metaphorically speaking, we are constantly giving birth to priorities; our priorities are perpetually reassessed and we perpetually adjust to accomplish them.Some call this "Change." I call it, improving ourselves by means through the inner self.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment.
— Steven Magee
We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.
— Steven Magee
The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
— Steven Magee
If you think that climate change and global warming are not going to affect you, then you are easily misled.
— Steven Magee
Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
It's not the surrounding that has changed, it's us who changed.
— Fatima Faisal
Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
We’ll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.
— Larry Crabb, The Pressure's Off: There's a New Way to Live
To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Guilt cannot change you
—  it can only hint that there’s something worth your effort to change.
Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.
— Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen
Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.
— Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow
The things that had changed seem out of place, and the things that had remained the same made Charlie feel out of place.
— Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes
Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.
— L.M. Montgomery
Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The change is for a cause.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind
—  college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.
It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly seek to amend our circumference and circumstances, craft and redraft our emotional, social, political, economic, and artistic being.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Change begins with ourselves.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled.
— Steven Magee
There are no electromagnetic field (EMF) book millionaires yet, but that may change with the roll out of the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks.
— Steven Magee
In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness
— Malebo Sephodi
Use your now well now! There is always another day to change something, but all the days we may meet may never be the same. Use your now well now!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.
— Gift Gugu Mona
There was nothing she would ever change about him , except for who he thought she was.
— R.J. Groves, Writing You: An Unlikely Romance
Avoiding change is denying the path that leads to your spiritual growth.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Nobody
Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.
— Crystal Kadakia, The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding Into Workplace Breakthroughs
Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..
— K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
After a long time i saw my self in mirror and i find-out a berthing machine
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.
— Lance Olsen, Calendar of Regrets
Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.
— Gift Gugu Mona
I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.
— Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future.
— Kate Skylark, Daddy's Wicked Parties: The Most Shocking True Story of Child Abuse Ever Told
Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent.
— Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward
Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons