Quotes About Change

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there's nothing to be done for such people.

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkeness

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand's assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history.

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.

No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip." Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

He watched the screen go gray.

people: "I will give them [a] new heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the stony heart from their bodies, and replace it with a natural heart

unaffirmed people I have met often have an utter sense of helplessness because they believe there is nothing they themselves can do

You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.

If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

In any generation, even the most revolutionary, the arrangements which are enjoyed always far exceed those which are recognized to stand in need of attention, and those which are being prepared for enjoyment are few in comparison with those which receive amendment: the new is an insignificant proportion of the whole.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.