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I love you," "I was wrong," and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.
— John Hawkins, 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
The key thing to keep in mind is that people do change, but they do it in their own time, for their own reasons. That's why you can hope for change, you can encourage change, you can communicate that you want change, but there are never any guarantees that it will happen.
— John Hawkins, 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America
Change is the medium to become who you wish to be.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
It doesn't mean anything;It doesn't change anything,Except the way I see myself,And it's not supposed to do that.I shouldn't feel this way;I should cry this way,But I kind of do.Yeah, I kind of do.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
You can only get to where you want to be, through where you are now.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham
Pain means change is coming. When you are going through a hell, or turmoil, know that change is coming. Don't be afraid of pain, losing, failing or trying - change is coming. There's no gain without pain, just hold on, change is coming. God is not yet finished, hold on.
— Kabelo Mabona
Every year is a year of impact, a month of change and a day of new encounters. Its all in the mind to make the impact, see the change and conquer new encounters.
— Kabelo Mabona
Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.
— Caroline George, The Vestige
How much could the person you love change, and still remain the same person to whom you'd made your promise? We don't expect our lovers to remain the same over the course of a long relationship. In fact, if you're married at sixty-five to the same person you married when you were twenty, your marriage has probably failed. But there are changes, over time, that spell doom for a marriage, although exactly what these are, and to what degree, varies from couple to couple. For some people, vast changes over time make no difference to the fundamental sense of devotion one soul has for another. But for others, relatively small changes can push things to the breaking point: gaining or losing weight, gaining or losing faith, gaining or losing wealth. How does any relationship survive in the end, when change is the only constant?
— Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Change plus innovation equals progress!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
You’re young, and like anything new. It’s change you want. I’m middle-aged, and there’s nothing staler to me than change. Constant comfort and little luxuries as regular as the clock are fresher than change.
— John     Davidson
Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time.Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
Aversion to change is denial of destiny.
— Andy Harglesis
Change is automatic, but progress is not. Death is certain, but LIVING a good life is a CHOICE
— Sesan Kareem
It is through victims such as myself who still have a voice that the world will change to be a better place.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can’t stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered.
— H.S. Crow
Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Change, I've come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable.
— Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood
Dear God, Thank you for waking me up today and for your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead.
— Germany Kent
Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn’t have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for “a cup of coffee”. If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn’t have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what’s going on. Tony has no idea, all he knows is that Peg isn’t the same Peg he married back in 2003. All he knows is that she’s changed a great deal, and not for the better, like a beautiful butterfly regressing back into a devouring, ugly caterpillar in the span of only a couple of months.
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, "You are not the same.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
There is a reason life has put you in the current circumstances,Life will always test you, it will always try to make you stronger.Life only wants you to be better then you were yesterday.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.
— Amish Tripathi, The Immortals of Meluha
You have taught them to think differently. That is how we beat the bigotry. Class by class. Year by Year
— E. R. Braithwaite
Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I still don't know what those stars are meant to represent. My mistake, I suppose, is in thinking they should mean something.
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns (….)
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change.
— Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it.
— Enock Maregesi
Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.
— Jinnul Jr.
Our big opportunity may be right where we are right now. We have the sense to realize that a single idea can change the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we live, that right now is one of those moments when we have the ability to influence the future right now. Believe it!
— Donald Pillai
We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun
— Sunday Adelaja
Some things never changed.
— Hope Ann, Shadows of the Hersweald: A Hansel and Gretel Novella
The changes of this new time will not only be noticeable around us but also within us
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who know God can smoothly adapt to changes
— Sunday Adelaja
Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process
— Sunday Adelaja
The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.
— Jacob Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government
— Sunday Adelaja
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
— Germany Kent
We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals
— Sunday Adelaja
When you dream of change, it shines bright, like fire, and burns away all the rot that came before it. It's swift and inexorable. You cry for justice, and justice is done. The world stands with you in your fight. But if there was one thing I had learned in these last few weeks, it was that change had never been that simple. That kind of revolution existed only in daydreams.
— Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.
— Nikki Rowe
But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.
— Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don’t change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it’s that of a nation or a single human being.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts
— Sunday Adelaja
Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
God knows how to turn your helplessness into strength
— Sunday Adelaja
God always turns a person’s weakness into strength
— Sunday Adelaja
If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.
— Sister Hazel
The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.
— K. Melissa Kennedy, The Innovation Revolution: Discover the Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us
—  but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently.
Pivotal changes occur with every period of time
— Sunday Adelaja
When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Once you embrace that continuous change is a natural process for your growth and evolution, you will be reminded that who, what, and where you are now is a temporary condition. Understanding this fact is foundational for hope, positive change and resilient transformation.
— Susan C. Young
Re is a prefix, which when used in front of a word, changes its meaning to convey a fresh beginning, a do-over, a repeat, a shift in perspective, or an opportunity to create something new. When you add the prefix Re, you are activating the power of the word to head in a new direction to build momentum for positive change and transformation.
— Susan C. Young
Sometimes the changes in your life will be planned with strategy, optimism, and intention. Other changes, however, will catch you by surprise, sabotage your success, break your heart, cause you stress, or leave you feeling lost. Whether you are dealing with planned or unplanned change, there will always be a degree of adaptation and reorientation required in order for you to be resilient.
— Susan C. Young
The importance of reviewing is apparent and proven. However, the majority of people do not do it in their own lives. Do you want to live your best life now? Take deliberate action and begin to REVIEW where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to be.
— Susan C. Young
Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper warnings.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Scholars postulate that the only thing that does not change is the every varying world. Other renowned thinkers postulate that the natural state of all things is to remain the same. Perhaps both propositions are vital. Perhaps it is normal to resist change because it threatens our present state of being. Perhaps it is natural to attempt to preserve the status quo because we are part of the external world and we wish to persevere, not expire. Perhaps it is inevitable that we all change. The natural forces are impossible to blunt.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In time of macromental change, only the adaptable survive.
— Jeffrey Fry
Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.
— Marilyn Hilton, Full Cicada Moon
Start visualizing and believing the life you want to live. Your strong visualization and self belief shall take you there. It's your life no one else than you only can change it!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.
— DaShanne Stokes
You do not get to choose the events that come your way nor the sorrows that interrupt your life. They will likely be a surprise to you, catching you off quard and unprepared. You may hold your head in your hands and lament your weak condition and wonder what you ought to do. To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith and your smile, that is remarkable. Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune. Suffering shapes your perception of life, your values and priorities, and your goals and dreams. Your pain is changing you.
— David Crosby
Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.
— DaShanne Stokes
All changes are born within.
— Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
It's time to make important noise.
— Erica Alex
To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change.
— Richie Norton
Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.
— Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfolding, in their lives. This sense makes it possible for them to say: Yes, this new person is important to me: he, or she, is the beginning of something I must live through. Or: This emotion, which I have not felt before, is not the alien I believed it to be. It will now be part of me and I must deal with it.It is easy now, looking back over my life to say: That Anna, in that time, was such and such a person. And then, five years later, she was such and such. A year, two years, five years of a certain kind of being can be rolled up and tucked away, or ‘named’ — yes, during that time I was like that. Well now I am in the middle of such a period, and when it is over I shall glance back at it casually and say: Yes, that’s what I was.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.
— Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.
— Jeffrey Fry
You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants.
— Chris Colfer, Stranger Than Fanfiction
Does the butterfly lose time in the months it grows from caterpillar to flying beauty? One day, I’m going to want to sleep twelve hours at a stretch and I won’t be able to. I’m not losing time. I am going through a metamorphosis.
— Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir
If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.
— Luigina Sgarro
Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is who?" "The hero, of course! The leader, the creator, the great man!" And having found him, they promptly ignore all his peers and troops and advisors. They close their eyes and abstract their Napoleon from the mud and the smoke and the masses on either side, and marvel at how such a figure could possibly have prevailed in so many battles and commanded the destiny of an entire continent. "There was an eye to see in this man," wrote Thomas Carlyle about Napoleon in 1840, "a soul to dare and do. He rose naturally to be the King. All men saw that he was such."But Tolstoy saw differently. "Kings are the slaves of history," he declared. "The unconscious swarmlike life of mankind uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes." Kings and commanders and presidents did not interest Tolstoy. History, his history, looks elsewhere: it is the study of infinitely incremental, imperceptible change from one state of being (peace) to another (war).The experts claimed that the decisions of exceptional men could explain all of history's great events. For the novelist, this belief was evidence of their failure to grasp the reality of an incremental change brought about by the multitude's infinitely small actions.
— Daniel Tammet, Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
— DaShanne Stokes
Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
We think the world is steady, rolling through space beneath our feet, day and night, rain and sunlight. And then, one day, you just fall off the planet and drift away, into outer space, and everything you thought was true all the laws that bound your life before, all the rules and norms that kept things in place, that kept you in place, they're gone. And nothing makes sense anymore. Gravity is gone. Love is gone.
— Nickolas Butler
I don't care who you were. I don't care who you are and I am more concerned with who you're working to become.
— Baylor Barbee
Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope.
— Peter Straub, Brief Lives
Take a close look at nature and you’ll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, “I’m not the same person I used to be,” is the greatest of all miracles.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
It is impossible to come to God and not experience changes in your life
— Sunday Adelaja
I wasn’t crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn’t feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.
— Benyf, 11.11.11 After so Many Years of Tears: Letters to My Distant Soul-Mate
You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.
— DaShanne Stokes
I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.
— Benyf, 11.11.11 After so Many Years of Tears: Letters to My Distant Soul-Mate
You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
You can change your Job but u cannot choose your calling
— Sunday Adelaja
Change your language, change your mindset, change your actions, change your life
— Danny Stone
Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades. And this must be especially so, when those with newfound power are men who distrust any form of hesitation or nuance, and who prize self-assurance above all.
— Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
We see so much bad and evil that we forget there could still be good left, somewhere. If you think you deserve to be treated well, it’s a sign that there still so much good left. People only treat us as best as their ability allows them; if you deserve more, try as much as you can to treat them better.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.
— Coretta Scott King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Loss is an inevitable part of change.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Every journey towards change begins with awareness.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.
— Kevin Crossley-Holland, Heartsong
The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Patience is not waiting
—  it is a quality of waiting.
Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more
— D.H. Lawrence
Every change is a menace to stability.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I'm changing and I'm terrified of how weak I feel, how vulnerable my flesh and soul has become because of this girl.
— K. Weikel, Building Monsters
Kingdom laws do not change
— Sunday Adelaja
To change your way of thinking is to enjoy fulfillment of divine destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
Change your understanding and then even the negative side of the blessings will make you rejoice in God’s blessings
— Sunday Adelaja
The nature of Nature is change.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
To Change Priority Is A Sign Of A New Discovery
— Sunday Adelaja
Laws by definition do not change
— Sunday Adelaja
Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
No declaration changes the existence of God
— Sunday Adelaja
We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
Healing facilitates lasting change
—  change facilitates healing.
The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.
— Kayla Krantz, The Council
Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
You will only see change in your results if you apply change to your actions. Every day!
— RiiFerreira
The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experiencing right now is just the change of this moment and that this moment will change into the next and the next, the less need I will have to clutch in fear.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God’s wisdom, strength and authority
— Sunday Adelaja
Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life
— Sunday Adelaja
Until we realize that we are the children of the Almighty God and start acting like His representatives on the earth, nothing will change in our country
— Sunday Adelaja
It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian
— Sunday Adelaja
Without having any relationship with God, we will not change anything in our world
— Sunday Adelaja
The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision
— Sunday Adelaja
Only a changed person can live according to the law.
— Sunday Adelaja
Becoming God’s reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful platform for us to be eligible to change a whole nation for God
— Sunday Adelaja
A country experiences regeneration and change only when it lives by the principles of the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything
— Sunday Adelaja
Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is to let it move like a wave, allow it to complete its movement and, eventually, to leave. If the movement gets held back, if it gets trapped and stagnates, or an inner turbulence stirs, the unexpressed emotion and grief can turn into physical illness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, or other displaced emotion.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes
— Sunday Adelaja
A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes.
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians have a real chance to change the society that is I darkness, to help every person see the light of God’s love
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.
— Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak
— Sunday Adelaja
Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.
— Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.
— Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl
I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present.
— Armin Houman
Introspection leads to insights
—  insights tell us what needs to change.
Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are
— Natasha Tsakos
Take the chance, change is possible.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently.
— Marty Rubin
Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Change was coming.Change was coming, and it was good.
— Lisa Berne, The Laird Takes a Bride
In changing times, question everything you take for granted.
— Gyan Nagpal
Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.
— Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog
We give people political labels, sexual labels, and religious labels. But in the process, we strip them of their individuality and complexity. Prejudice is pre-judging. It's assuming that bad stories end badly, but Jesus is in the business of turning bad beginnings into happily ever afters....God cannot give up on you. It's not in His nature. His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. All you have to do is turn around. All you have to do is crash the party!
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
The spiritual tipping point is when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change. Sadly, too many of us get comfortable with comfort. We follow Christ to the point of inconvenience, but no further. That's when we need a prophet to walk into our lives, throw a mantle around our shoulders, and wake us up to a new possibility, a new reality. We need a prophet to boldly confront Plan B and call us back to Plan A.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
In the late nineteenth century women lodgers, alone in the city, epitomized the purity of endangered woman-hood; in the early twentieth century the same women were among the first "respectable" women broadcast as happy sexual objects.
— Jeanne Meyerowitz
Truth is always a turning point.
— Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
Life will change for us the moment we decide to change our minds.
— Kabelo Mabona
Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change
— Natasha Tsakos
You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references. Mapping a new life.
— Natasha Tsakos
It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.
— Natasha Tsakos
If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If we only keep looking into the middle distance, we might easily walk straight into the wall. ("Change of Vision")
— Erik Pevernagie
Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are forever changing.
— Kamand Kojouri
Life begins when we get tired of our own bullshit. We must all get bloody tired of our own bullshit, in order for our lives to begin.
— C. JoyBell C.
We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes.
— Joseph Campbell, Sukhavati
Change is a difficult process. It can truly take place in an environment of support, structure, and sacrifice. Support comes from asking for help, seeking professional coaching, and surrounding yourself with the right people. Structure requires accountability, a follow-up system, and action. Sacrifice requires paying the price and getting out of your comfort zone but staying in your strength zone.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.
— Steven Magee
If you don't like something don't protest from a far. Work within it to change it. Otherwise, you'll just be one voice of many rather than a trusted voice of influence.
— Isabella Poretsis
Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.
— C. JoyBell C.
Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn’t respect in him and eventually that’s all she saw.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.
— Ross  Turner, Midnight
When a person sets out upon a journey - whether to hunt for food or knowledge, to make war, or even to visit the Otherworld - they are never the same when they return. Traveling changes us. Journeys shapes our memories and expand our experiences. Those things we bring back from the hunt - either food or knowledge - sustain us and keep us curious about the world. Think of your own travels and adventures out upon the land or in foreign countries: What wonderful stories do you have to tell? What experiences have you "hunted" or sought on your travels? What have you learned from the land? The stories told about journeys are as important (perhaps more important) than the destination. The journey lasts for only a fixed time, but the stories told of it, the wisdom brought back, can keep traveling forever, keep living, even after the tellers have traveled on.
— Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn, Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.
— Duane Hewitt
People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Life is a circle. It spins you around.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.
— Jeffrey Fry
She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.
— Anthony Liccione
Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.
— Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating on a mat. It happens in the throes of conflict—when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.
— Kamand Kojouri
... To be in time means to change.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul... Do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm [the cause of evil] if [it is kept] out of his will... The more often he feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone’s thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something changes! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.
— Kamand Kojouri
Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourselves. And some day, after it sets in us a long time, it'll come out ofour hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will beright. We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walksaround and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And whilenone of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'llbe me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it'sfinally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times tenthousand a day. I get hold of it so it'll never run off. I'll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
But I don't like it, okay? I don't like how everything is changing. It's like when you're a kid, you think that things like the holidays are meant to show you how things always stay the same, how you have the same celebration year after year, and that's why it's so special. But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because maybe you don't notice it every single day. Maybe it's only on days like today that you notice it a lot. And I know I'm supposed to be able to deal with that, but I'm not sure I can deal with that.--David Levithan (p. 201 in galley)
— David Levithan, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
Everything happens
—  some get hurt maybe a fairy tale of damage but nature can't be change. We just walk away with memories that carries a story being made after as history.
A step from the past always demands a step in the mind backed by a robust action. The very place you fall is the very place you make the first move to move.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.
— Unknown
Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.
— Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Your thought determines your mood and to a great extent, your mood determines your thought, though sometimes it is hard to determine someone’s thought by the mood of the person! When the mind changes, something change! When the mind changes, the face changes! Change your mind and see!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the person you’ve always wanted to be. Some days your heart will be in it, and some days you’ll fake it, but eventually it will become a habit and without thinking about it, you will be changed anew. A new attitude. A new outlook. A new perspective. The human mind is a wonderful thing to grant us that kind of change.
— Kim Holden, So Much More
As you spend time with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, His attitude becomes your attitude.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.
— Paul Gibbons, Reboot Your Career: A Blueprint for Finding Your Calling, Marketing Yourself, and Landing Great Gigs
Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.
— Taylor Patton
You only can get out of your challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within...A greater passion, a greater commitment and a greater life. You can begin today.
— Farshad Asl
Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.
— Chuck Wendig, Invasive
It means something, but it doesn't change anything.
— C.M. Stunich, Bad Nanny
Eternal life truly begins the moment you’re born again. It’s a present tense—not future tense—reality. If you’re a believer, eternal life is now!
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
— Samuel Johnson
If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Enlightenment – whether defined as spiritual awakening, liberation, or other form of illumination and attentiveness – requires inner transformation brokered by study of our limitations and application of a welcoming spirit of conscious appreciation. Self-knowledge commences by looking for the sacred light of awareness essential to spawn profound change in a person’s character.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.
— John Corey Whaley, Noggin
When you compare yourself against someone else, you always lose.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
When we look at things differently, things look different.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
We cannot properly defend and protect ourselves without confidence. Confidence is vital, we must learn that confidence in life matters a lot.
— Auliq-Ice
All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky.
— Mariana Zapata, Wait for It
I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!
— Bill Maher