“We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.”
— Bryant McGill
“It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.”
— Jamie Magee
“Do you think people can change?” I ask Rick “Yes.” he answers plainly. “There are those who can.” That grabs my attention. “So you believe it’s possible?””Miss Stella.”He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. “Its boils down to choice.”
— Katie McGarry
“Every turning point in a person’s life isn’t reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top”
— Michael Bassey Johnson
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”
— Anne Brontë
“I’m happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club’s in a really good position right now.”
— Frank Lampard
“I don’t desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.”
— Dean Koontz
“…you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you’ve changed the view from my window!…”
— John Geddes
“When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.”
— Chris Prentiss
“What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.”
— Chris Prentiss
“Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.”
— Chris Vonada
“Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can’t change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you.”
— Steve Maraboli
“If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be a moment when these details suddenly become part of the ship, and indissolubly fused with it. As I approached, I did not perceive resemblances or proximities which ?nally came together to form a continuous picture of the upper part of the ship. I merely felt that the look of the object was on the point of altering, that something was imminent in this tension, as a storm is imminent in storm clouds.Suddenly the sight before me was recast in a manner satisfying to my vague expectation. Only afterwards did I recognize, as justi?cations for the change, the resemblance and contiguity of what I call ‘stimuli’— namely the most determinate phenomena, seen at close quarters and with which I compose the ‘true’ world. ‘How could I have failed to see that these pieces of wood were an integral part of the ship? For they were of the same colour as the ship, and ?tted well enough into its superstructure.’ But these reasons for correct perception were not given as reasons beforehand. The unity of the object is based on the foreshadowing of an imminent order which is about to spring upon us a reply to questions merely latent in the landscape. It solves a problem set only in the form of a vague feeling of uneasiness, it organizes elements which up to that moment did not belong to the same universe and which, for that reason, as Kant said with profound insight, could not be associated. By placing them on the same footing, that of the unique object, synopsis makes continuity and resemblance between them possible. An impression can never by itself be associated with another impression.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Change brings opportunity.”
— Nido R. Qubein
“Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.”
— Erin Morgenstern
“The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for ‘What is’ the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.”
— Matthew Donnelly
“Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.”
— Beth Ramsay
“If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.”
— Paul Bamikole
“People tend to focus on the things that they don’t like about themselves. While that’s important for change, it’s equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It’s a balancing act.”
— Tom Giaquinto
“You don’t have to solve it, only evolve it!”
— Silvia Hartmann
“Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.”
— change
“Change lives on the horizon.”
— T.F. Hodge
“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it — perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.”
— Will Durant
“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.”
— Charles Emmerson
“But we can never change enough to impress God. And here’s the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my looking good. It is done for my glory. And that’s pretty much the definition of sin. Sin is living for my glory instead of God’s.”
— Tim Chester
“Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.”
— Richelle E. Goodrich
“Our communities basically want the same things—safe, clean environments; affordable, adequate housing and transportation; educational opportunities; accessible, quality health care; meaningful work at a fair wage; and equitable services for everyone. So, in the spirit of warmth and energy that our campfire metaphor brings, I invite each of you to be the spark that ignites your community to be safer, healthier, and fairer—and fired up for change.”
— Frances Dunn Butterfoss
“Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.”
— Kate Levinson
“People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.”
— David W. Earle
“Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind’s identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle