Quotes About Change

Bidden verandert de wereld niet maar bidden verandert de mens en de mens verandert de wereld

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

The world as we have created it is the process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Já não mais firmo uma opinião, um hábito ou um julgamento sobre outra pessoa. Testei o homem. É inconsistente.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

Debo estar dispuesto a renunciar a lo que soy para convertirme en lo que seré

Quando si chiude una porta, si può aprire di nuovo, perché di solito è così che funzionano le porte.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.

Triste época la nuestra! Es más fácil desintegrar un átomo que un prejuicio.

That fellow Einstein suits his convenience. Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

if the facts don't fit the theory change the facts

REBT, then, helps you not only to understand what you "are" but to change what you harmfully think, feel, and do. It accepts your desires, wishes, preferences, goals, and values, then tries to help you achieve them. But REBT shows you how to separate your preferences from your insistences—and thus keep from sabotaging your own goals. It gives you insight into what you are now doing rather than into what you (and your damned parents!) have done.

people often want to remain angry. This represents a very important difference between anger and other troublesome emotions.

But we can choose to change ourselves remarkably.

In real-life situations, however, risks frequently increase without any corresponding increase in the payoff:

Constitutions and Laws, without Genius and Intellect to govern, will not prevent decay. In that case they have the dry-rot and the life dies out of them by degrees.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except for a few constant landmarks - are never one and the same. Heraclitus's bon mot about time applies equally well to my reading: "You never dip into the same book twice.

I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.