Quotes About Change

Pero ya digo que la recuperación no existe: no es posible volver a ser quien eras. Existe la reinvención, y no es mala cosa. Con suerte, puede que consigas reinventarte mejor que antes. A fin de cuentas, ahora sabes más.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also free.

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.

Given such strong defenses against change, fresh ideas come from those who do more than think outside the box. They think outside the building.

Feminism is still a subject which provokes passion and, it has to be said, unreason. 'Are you for it or against it?' is the most question. But such polarization is now unhelpful, obscuring an understanding of what feminism has achieved, what has changed, and what role gender now actually does play.

In short, feminism has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the brave women who fought its first battles. Its future in the new millennium is to face up to the problems of its success, and to see gender as just one possible reason for social and personal conflicts rather than an all-encompassing cause. But if it is going to be capable of making these changes, it will first have to let go of its sacred cows.

Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it's healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us?

Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.

June looked around, with a mischievous smile, "We're all in agreement, aren't we, that Mark has a narcissistic personality disorder, and will never change?" No one knew what to say. June laughed. I realized I had been taking myself pretty goldarn seriously. "Why can't you have the Best Sex Ever with a self-centered guy?" I said to myself. "Lighten up.

Where is the electric socket for possibility, the access to the energy of transformation?

Here is a letter from a man who heard about the practice of the A, gave way to the power of music, and transformed his life, all in the space of an afternoon.

Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.

Irene nodded. She couldn't say it but she knew she was destroying a world. A little culture. It was the known and safe way of behaving in the family. All the rituals, wrong or sick, it didn't matter, good or bad, would be useless. All the strategies. They knew the familiar treacheries, but now they would be open to new dangers.

Whenever he thought he knew the truth it merged into another truth.

if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.

I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time. What

AUGUST 9 The next morning, I travel north to my Potts reservation home...In one enormous, empty field a sign is planted that reads Future Home of the Living God. ...I pull over and take a photograph of the sign, and keep driving....We are an idea, then. Maybe God has decided that we are an idea not worth thinking anymore.