Quotes About Change

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

If you want to progress in your life and grow, act not to react.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Life is a child moving counters in a game.

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

Life happens at intersections.

We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.