Quotes About Change

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Like water, I have no skin...only surface tension. (Gretel Ehrlich)

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

Now what looks like smoke is only mare's tails—clouds streaming—and as the season changes, my young dog and I wonder if raindrops might not be shattered lightning.

Gretta Mulrooney

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

Estos son mis principios; si no le gustan, tengo otros

Éstos son mis principios; si no le gustan, tengo otros.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

When you first start chanting or repeating your positive affirmations, they don't make much sense. You don't feel great about them because they strongly oppose your current reality. That's the point. The affirmations should oppose your current reality. That's how change happens. Everyone feels strange about using affirmations to begin with. But if you stick to the program, the power of positive affirmations will take effect.

No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do.

You may have known for many, many years that smoking isn't good for you, but you're still smoking. You have become a master of deluding yourself. Direct experience is the only thing that can crush your delusion. If you really want to quit and be free, this is the most important step you can take in that direction.

Contrary to popular belief, positive affirmations cannot change everything and they are not likely to attract wealth and prosperity to you without considerable talent or action; but positive affirmations will help you to change your underlying beliefs and longings - they will help you to quit smoking.

Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

I say we make our voices heard. For us, for our kids, I say that it is time to figure out a new approach to spirituality, one that honors rationality.

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.