Quotes About Change

Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.

Change is an anxiety-arousing business, both for the one doing the changing and for those affected by the change. Often we fear that another person's move toward new ideas and experiences will create a gulf so wide that we will not be able to reach them.

You know, Dad," Ben said matter-of-factly, "as we get closer and closer to home, I can just feel the layers of maturity peeling off me.

Learning to use our anger effectively requires some letting go—letting go of blaming that other person whom we see as causing our problems and failing to provide for our happiness; letting go of the notion that it is our job to change other people or tell them how they should think, feel, behave.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

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Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can't make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.

Learning is finding. Finding is losing something else.

Our anger can be a powerful vehicle for personal growth and change if it does nothing more than help us recognize that we are not yet clear about something and that it is our job to keep struggling with it.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

Big changes in our lives are more or less a second chance.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

Prosperity often subverts what adversity cannot destroy

Right now this feels like everything. Right now it always is. It's only afterwards that we can see there's more than this. You can be informed by this without being formed by this just as a calm before the storm there is a dark before the dawn in this.

Remember the Butterfly Effect. Tiny cause, huge effect. A

But there are few rules or unwritten laws that are not broken when circumstances demand,

He says the sort of thing that people say. The light. The movement. The ceaseless change. But I think that's to get it precisely wrong. Isn't it the other way around? That it never changes. That you are staring at a vision of eternity, sometimes sunlit, sometimes furious, but always there. Gazing at you gazing at it. I

I know I would be happier if the Court didn't plunge back and forth from left to right, just by the addition of a new Justice.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.