Quotes About Change

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará como "inmaduros" o "inestables", como si "no cambiar de rumbo" fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

futuro está almacenado en el pasado.

Coherencia y flexibilidad, la clave de todo crecimiento personal: intentar ser consecuente, pero abierto al cambio.

la suavidad y la flexibilidad están íntimamente relacionadas con la vida, mientras la dureza y la rigidez están asociadas a la muerte.

No temas revisar, cambiar o modificar tus metas, si ellas son fuente de sufrimiento. ¿De qué otro modo podrías acercarte a la felicidad?

La mente flexible mantiene opiniones, tiene creencias y principios, pero está dispuesta al cambio y en pleno contacto con la realidad.

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará de inmaduros o "inestables", como si no cambiar de rumbo fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

la vida nos enseña que la mayoría de nuestros logros perdurables han sido producto del trabajo y la entrega a un proyecto que consideramos vital (criar un hijo, estudiar en la universidad, desarrollar una destreza deportiva). ¿Disciplina? No cabe duda, pero también motivación. Sentir que el cambio es necesario

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Only rarely did violence directly lead to improvements, however temporary.

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

I had this sudden feeling, like my life could have easily taken another path.

Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren't likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

My smile did not seem to be working. I used to have a good one. Now I get the feeling people regard it as something I just drop over my face, like a page on a flip chart.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo. Reduction of conflict by means of a phony "peace" is not a Christian goal. Justice is the goal, and that may require an acceleration of conflict as a necessary stage in forcing those in power to bring about genuine change.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.

Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.

The ultimate weakness of violence," observed Martin Luther King, Jr., "is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.