Quotes About Change

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Change your thoughts and you change your world

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out.

Change your thoughts and change your world.

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

Does everyone here grow the way you do? puffed Milo when he had caught up. Almost everyone, replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. Now and then, though, some- one does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to dis- courage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.

You certainly must be very old to have reached the ground already. Oh no, said Milo seriously. In my family we all start on the ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we actually get there. What a silly system. The boy laughed. Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.

The expression on Dodson's face changed in an instant to one of cold ferocity mingled with inexorable cupidity. The soul of the man showed itself for a moment like an evil face in the window of a reputable house.

But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice.

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

o love is to battle, if two kiss the world changes, desires take flesh thoughts take flesh, wings sprout on the backs of the slave, the world is real and tangible, wine is wine, bread regains its savor, water is water, to love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger

I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little

Human love is the union of two beings subject to time and its accidents: change, sickness, death. Although it does not save us from time, it opens it a crack, so that in a flash love's contradictory nature is manifest: that vivacity which endlessly destroys itself and is reborn, which is always both now and never. Therefore all love, even the most blissful, is tragic. —Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (Ecco; First edition, June 1, 1996)

Las masas humanas más peligrosas son aquellas en cuyas venas ha sido inyectado el veneno del miedo.... del miedo al cambio

Imparai che la politica non è solo azione ma anche partecipazione. Forse, mi dissi, non si tratta di cambiare gli uomini quanto di accompagnarli, di essere uno di loro

Así, lo verdaderamente asomboso es la continuidad de nuestra idea del amor, no sus cambios y variaciones... La pasión que los exalta o devora es la misma.

Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.

Today.....I begin a new life.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.