c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I am pointing to you that under these conditions--mental strain, physical malaise--it is highly probable that dislikes that were before merely mild and disagreements that were trivial might suddenly assume a more serious note. The result of pretending to be a more amiable, a more forgiving, a more high-minded person than one really is, has sooner or later the effect of causing one to behave as a more disagreeable, a more ruthless and an altogether more unpleasant person than is actually the case! If you dam the stream of natural behavior, mon ami, sooner or later the dam bursts and cataclysm occurs.
— Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas
It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as well.
— Adam Scythe, Immortals, Vol. II.
Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?
— Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy
I know that most men—not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems—can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty—conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
— Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
I am the catalyst of change!
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Piece makes Peace , Pain makes Paint, A Word create World. "The One person can change you, Maybe ubiquitous r inconspicuous.
— Bhoopal M
The biggest opportunity for light to have extreme impact is where there is extreme darkness.
— Auliq-Ice
God’s Word must come to a person and enter them in order to change their life.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him!
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Solution reigns supreme to those who see solution as the only way.
— Auliq-Ice
An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They didn’t change
—  they just got tired of pretending.
For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the impotent and the lazy attach happiness to such things. Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. He could hear Zagreus: "Not the will to renounce, but the will to happiness.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don’t ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don’t like what it’s reflecting, take accountability and change it.
— Steve Maraboli
Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you truly love who you are, travel through this life with conviction, spread joy to others, embrace changes as they happen, then you will find balance in your life.
— Annie Morecambe
Respect, love, Trust; Every such things works both ways. If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too.
— Sandesh limbu
We can only teach what we have learned
— Sandesh limbu
We ,human beings, are strong because we are capable of change
— Sandesh limbu
The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it.
— Chanda Kaushik
... Weber insists that one should not give up or lose faith in the face of this struggle. Indeed, he calls for us to engage in, rather than withdraw from, the problems of this world. He reminds us, for example, that while 'successful political action is always the "art of the possible" ... the possible is often reached only by striving to attain the impossible that lies beyond it'.
— Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
There is no way to suppress change…not even in heaven; there is only a choice between a way of living which allows constant, if gradual alterations and a way of living that combines great control and cataclysmic upheavals. Those who panic and bind the trickster choose the latter path. It would be better to learn to play with him, better especially to develop skills (cultural, spiritual, artistic) that allow some commerce with accident, and some acceptance of the changes that contingency will always engender.
— Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must respect that someone too.
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
We can only teach what we have learned.
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new will be more okay than that... to much honesty... I am not on this... After all if you don't know this fact, I am going to point it to you... Marriage is successful if it's build on a lie...
— Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 1
[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.
— Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
We, human beings , are strong because we are capable of change .
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
I am an engineer and hoping not just to change the world but also to touch human hearts.
— Nathaniel E. Quimada
The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
— Anthony Liccione
The world changes and we change with it.
— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.
— Trent Shelton
You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
— Marty Rubin
The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how they should look and for a second you're thrown off, because your memory of them IS them.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,
— Martina Boone, Illusion
The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.
— Adam Kirk Smith
Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.
— Rana Dasgupta, Solo
You never know what will last."He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened."I think sometimes you do know," I say, my voice filling with emotion.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
...that whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Some won't stay but thank them for stopping by.
— Nikki Rowe
Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world.
— Roshan Sharma
A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
The more you remain aware with all the internal and external changes of life, more you allow yourself to move deeper towards the source.
— Roshan Sharma
A conservative culture will resist change and treat progress as a virus
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
Curious how even a little time can alter so much.
— Robin Jarvis, The Oaken Throne
Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth can be known or realized but cannot be change or modify.
— Roshan Sharma
In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.
— Khali Raymond
Don't see where people are today and think they have always been there
—  it took a journey of faith.
We might not return from this voyage. None of us. We might all lay down our lives when we reach the end, and not ever know whether our sacrifice changed anything for the better.”“It will be for the better,” Magiano replies. “We cannot just die, not without trying. Not without fighting.”“Do you really believe that?” I ask. “Why are we doing this, anyway? To preserve my own life, and yours—but what has the world ever done for us in order to deserve our sacrifice?”Magiano’s brows furrow for a moment, then he leans in closer. “We exist because this world exists. It’s a responsibility of ours, whether or not anyone will remember it.” He nods at me. “And they will. Because we will return and make sure of it.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Another day.How long are you gonna scroll down?SemicolonSmile
— Sanhita Baruah
If the pieces do not fit into your puzzle...Try a different picture
— Cass van Krah
Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
It’s probably better and more accessible to measure change readiness rather than change progress.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
When you're ready to live as the victor and not the victim, you have to change the language that you give to yourself and then you have to change the conversation that you give to others. Words matter.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
To make change sustain, the important thing is “end-to-end” performance.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The future or organizations have amazing digital traits such as customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
— Daisaku Ikeda
For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivery, the quality of information for decision making, and the wisdom of digital workforce.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
You are ... who you are... you can't change that.
— Deyth Banger
May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It's never too late to change anything or everything; there is no point that is too low to come back from. There is no opportunity that is lost. And the great news is that it's not the world you need change. Just change the way you think, change the way you feel, and the world as you know it will change before your eyes.
— Rhonda Byrne, How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Self-acceptance can be daunting at first, but it is made easier with the understanding that self-acceptance is not hinged on perfection. Self-acceptance is the starting point.
— Akiroq Brost
You want to fix yourself, change yourself, become someone better. But what about who you already are? You want to craft a mask to wear—something to cover your face. But you already have a face. You are already something. Your task, as a human being, is not self-augmentation, but self-discovery. Look at yourself with curiosity. Let yourself explore your interests. Delve into your talents. Face your fears. Accept your faults, and give yourself unconditional love.By learning to explore yourself, you will naturally become the best version of yourself. Of course, you invent your life, but you do not invent your passions. Some things, you must create, and others you must discover.Learn to be curious about yourself. Then, you will be on the right path.
— Vironika Tugaleva
This night is going well."Hello there."I speak too soon.Dunstan enters, his two cronies behind him. Everyone standing around goes quiet. I flinch, but not for me; he's gazing at Ivy like a lion at a piece of meat. Ivy just keeps grinning."And may I say you are the prettiest girl I've seen all night," Dunstan says, not noticing the fact Ivy's already taken.Ivy stares down at her feet, a pale blush the color of pink roses brushed across her cheeks. "You don't mean that," she whispers, not knowing she's accidentally flirting."I really do," Dunstan continues in his oily, supposedly charming voice, and I roll my eyes. I want to pull Ivy away, but if I do, Dunstan will notice me. And without Melanie breathing down his neck, who knows what he'll try to pull?"So what's your name, beautiful?"Ivy blush deepens and i feel my nails dig into my skin. I'm the one whose supposed to tell her she's pretty, not this jerk."My name is Ivy," Ivy replies."Ivy. I like it. It suits you."I feel an arm on my shoulder and turning around, I see Aidan holding me back. Unconsciously, I've stepped forward, ready to challenge him."So what is your name?" Ivy asks, still shyly peering down at her shoeless feet.Acting all surprised he got asked this, Dunstan runs a hand through his hair. "My name is Dunstan."Ivy's flush instantly vanishes, the corners of her mouth turns down, and her eyebrows knit together."Dunstan? This is your name?" Quiet as she's being, I know there's anger there. I'd hate to be the recipient of this tone.But Dunstan the egotistical baboon butt isn't aware of the change. "Yep, that's me.""What is your last name?" I feel someone shaking. Aidan's still hanging on to me, and he's nervous, too.Dunstan still doesn't detect her malice. "Why, my last name's Lebelle. Dunstan Lebelle." He chuckles. "Perhaps you've heard of me?""Oh yes," Ivy hisses, suddenly radiating ferocious fury. "I've heard much about the boy who nearly got Rylan Forester killed."Even with blaring music in the next room, you can hear a pin drop throughout the kitchen as everyone goes quiet, having lost all ability to talk due to flapping jaws. Someone whistles."Excuse me?" Dunstan sounds like he can't believe what he's hearing."You heard me." Ivy glares, knowing she has him caught. "You pushed Rylan into the swamp where the alligator attacked him. Sure, you can blame the alligator, but when you really think about, if you had not pushed him in, Rylan wouldn't have nearly died. Who, by the way," Ivy steps back, clasping my free hand in hers, "happens to be my friend and my date."Everyone bursts into titters—no one has ever spoken to Dustan Lebelle like that—as Dunstan stares at me wide-eyed, finally taking in my existence. But before he can do anything, Ivy pulls my hand."We're leaving," she declares, giving Dunstan one last stink eye. And with her nose in the air and me following, Ivy boldly walks right out the back door.
— Colleen Boyd
You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The psychology of the change is that “People like to change, but do not want to be changed and there is the difference.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Asking big “WHY” question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Active-awareness combined with daily active-effort will compound to make a significant difference.
— Akiroq Brost
Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Change Management = The human side of change.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Change is a digital continuum.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Mindset is the “software,” and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Change is simply a shift of the “Old Way - Chaos - New Way” to do things.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employee’ brainpower.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.
— Joseph Campbell
A butterfly does not wonder how it can stop being a caterpillar. It simply feels some feeling from within that tells it: isolate yourself in this cocoon and grow within it. It trusts that feeling. When it comes out, it is radiant and beautiful. All the little bug did was follow its nature. You are no different.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.
— Holly Bourne, What's a Girl Gotta Do?
We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Change is part of life. Civilizations rise and fall, the tides wax and wane, the planet undergoes periods of climatic revolution, the young grow up, and the old die. What will come is that what shall be. Survival as individuals and as a species demands fluidity of human thought and the demonstrated ability, temperament, and perseverance to change.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person’s promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down
— Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.
— Rhonda Byrne, How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
You only can get out of our challenges by changing yourself. Change comes from within... a greater passion, a greater commitment, and a greater life. you can begin today.
— Farshad Asl
Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create.
— Rhonda Byrne, How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
We all see very clearly in others tendencies which we, ourselves, have overcome. The older and wiser we grow, the more we can see the arrogance of youth. The more authentic we become, the more we can see the lies of insecurity. The more vulnerable we allow ourselves to be, the more we see the dangerous symptoms of unexpressed emotions. There is no finish line to learning. There is no point where we're done growing, and all we will ever do is look down upon others who are behind us. No one is ever at the top. We are all growing at our own rates, and no matter how terrible or how enlightened we fancy ourselves to be today, the future will be sure to give us a different perspective. There is really no use in comparing yourself to others. There will always be someone ahead and someone behind, and there will be dozens (if not hundreds) of different scales and gradients to be behind and ahead on. To be number one is never final. It is and always will be a momentary, fleeting instant. But to be a growing version of yourself? That, you can be. You can be that every single day.
— Vironika Tugaleva
...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
— Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me
And damn it, I should be thinking this through. Normal people can’t leave their job to return a notebook. But this job sucks, and I haven’t taken any vacation time, like, ever. I should seriously be consulting with a lot of different people before jumping in, but that’s never been a strong suit of mine. Because there’s a need in Julienne’s voice that I haven’t heard before, and I have nothing waiting for me here that won’t be there when we get back.
— Pega Rose, The Someday List
Change Agents have a “learning wheel” in their mind.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
Digital professionals with growth mind can step out of their own comfort zone more easily, walking the talk and leading change more confidently.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.
— Vironika Tugaleva
13. If you’re going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.
— Garry L. Landreth, Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship
You may be wrong at first
—  you can still be right at last.
In these THREE years, I realized THREE thingstime is some how related to distance.distance changes everything and time teaches everything. people trust THIRD person more than themselves.
— Satish Sambhoje
Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.
— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Sometimes we need boldness, creativity and wisdom to enforce the change we want in us and others.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Your good character and attitude should be your message to the world.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Life isn't sugarcoated. Why should coffee be?
— Tommy Wallach, Thanks for the Trouble
In Egyptian Arabic, the word 'insan' means 'human'. If we remove the 'n', the word becomes 'insa', which means 'to forget'. So you see, the word 'forget' is taken from the word 'human'. And since it was God who created our minds and hearts, He knew from the very beginning that we would quickly forget our history, only to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So the ultimate test of every human is to seek wisdom. After all, wisdom is gained from having a good memory. Only after we have passed this test will we evolve to become better humans. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.
— Tommy Wallach, Thanks for the Trouble
Not anymore, though," he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.
— Kelly Creagh, Oblivion
There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
— Barack Obama
It’s not what we do once—it’s what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.
— Toni Sorenson
Change doesn’t always mean instability, you know. Being dormant? Now that’s crippling, much worse than change.
— Catherine DePasquale, Vocation
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, “Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house” (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don’t apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God’s standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, “He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear” (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You’ll be glad you did.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
The path to joy and spiritual fulfilment requires the courage to change and grow.
— A.G. Roemmers
Restyle your life forever by empowering yourself to incite the greatness in you
— Kamal Khanzada
Leaders are not the ones with the right position or a proclaimed or given title, the actual leaders are the people who start acting, who step up, who do change, no matter in what way or how small!
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.
— Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
Open your arms to CHANGEbut don’t let go of your VALUES.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Positivity creates change.
— Isabella Poretsis
Really, there's only one way of changing the world, and that's by changing yourself.
— A.G. Roemmers
It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don’t just be able
—  always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.
Don’t just fit in
—  make it a point to brighten your corner. Decide to resolve your challenges.
Don’t just be making a living
—  make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.
Do you realize that you have the power to design a life that’s meaningful and even remarkable? You and God are in a family partnership. He has not only blessed you with mortal breath, but with a purpose-filled life. He’s given you power and will to control that life. This is a gift that He will never take from you. But when you humble yourself and give your will back to him, your life will be nothing short of miraculous.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Nothing on this earth will empower you or change you more than knowing without doubt that God loves you.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Don’t just create
—  create to change
The action generated the possibility of a future different from the past. Bitter division was healed by way of bold, confident leadership.
— Rom Watangu
It is a different world today from what it was then. It will be a different world tomorrow from what it is today.
— Rom Watangu
The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, is not himself--Then you suspect him?No. That is just what I mean. A man whose mind is evil and whose intentions are evil is conscious of that fact and he knows that he must conceal it all costs. He dare not, therefore, afford any unusual behavior.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.Don’t just fit in; make it a point to brighten your corner. Decide to resolve your challenges. Don’t just manage; go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.Don’t just be able; always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.Don’t just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished.Don’t just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.Don’t just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire.Don’t just be making a living; make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.I want to meet you and many others on the top. Don’t be left out!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
I wonder why people wanted someone very badly, I wonder why someone comes in your life and life begins to change, every good happens to you, and you just want that person to never go from your life, remain there for you
— Shaikh Ashraf, Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
Enough !! of the lion ruling the wild territory, time to vote the panther gentlemen.
— Neymat Khan
One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
Change is fundamentally in the hands of People Cause there is no Greater Alternative to People's Awakening
— Venkat Gandhi
The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.
— Robert Ferrigno
When you put on a new cloth that fits you well, you put on a new confidence that improves your confidence well
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A change of attitude is the one change that changes everything
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.
— Michael Ende
Unless and until we change, we cannot grow. What’s life without growth?
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isn’t that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change?
— F.D.  Lee, The Fairy's Tale
When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
— Tommy Wallach, Thanks for the Trouble
We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
— Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
— Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
I am not seeing myself in your eyes, I think someone has replaced me
— Zarak Shakeel
The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.
— Faith Baldwin, Evening Star
Everything is within your power,and your power is within you.
— Janice Trachtman, Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing
Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.
— Charlotte Eriksson
fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you'll turn it off you'll be freezing cold
— Erik Tanghe
To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.
— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.
— Nora Roberts, Captivated
Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11
— A.H. Scott
[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.
— Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.
— Debasish Mridha
A vision should be attainable subject to current times and its ability to adapt to changing times.
— Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
There should not be any excuse. If we don’t like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let’s go beyond using lame excuses...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Sometimes a man does not accept life as given.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.
— Irwin Corey
You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.
— Kate McGahan
I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes
— Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe
We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and derive meaning.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.
— Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our identity is like a kaleidoscope. With each turn we reset it not to a former or final state but to a new one that reflects the here-and-now positions of the pieces we have to work with. The design is always new because the shifts are continual. That is what makes kaleidoscopes, and us, so appealing and beautiful.
— David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul.
— Martha Sweeney, Killmore
Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls