Quotes About Change

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now" from Cinderella In Focus

Policy-makers continue to discover that they cannot solve today's problems with yesterday's mindsets

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit