Quotes About Change

Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.

To relive the past is to relinquish the future. If you are willing to let go of the past, then you are ready to step into the future. When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments.

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

Moments carry the momentum of the past and fuel the momentum for the future. Guy

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

If you want to change the world, start by making small changes to your world.

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.

A veces, prender fuego a tu pasado es menos alejarte de él, que elevarte por encima de él.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.

We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.

Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

they looked so much the same; perhaps their faces were a little less doughy, more defined. Are they stunted? Am I seeing them the way I will always see them? Am I the keeper of the ghosts of their childhood selves?

Las viejas costumbres mueren despacio

MI definición de una mujer hermosa ha ido cambiando con el tiempo. En mis años mozos era una rubia despampanante; más adelante fue una mujer madura, afable, conversadora y con bueno sentido del humor; y hoy en día sería una mujer que se contenta con sentarse a mi lado a ver la televisión.

Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves.

Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness.

there is more than a hint of arrogance in the assumption that we can make our relationships permanent

Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies. This never-ending dance between change and stability is like the anchor and the waves.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days. —Paulo Coelho, Adultery

The person I once was, but lost, is the person you once knew.

Now that these men and women and the generations who have followed can have as much sex as they want, they seem to have lost their desire for it.