Quotes About Change

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

Lahiri Mahasaya was] awake in God, knew this world to be nothing but an objectivized dream of the Creator. Because he was compeltely aware of his unity with the Divine Dreamer, Lahiri Mahasaya could materialize or dematerialize or make any other change he wished in the dream atoms of the phenomenal world.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."1

Is the whole world going to change for you? Change yourself:

I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.

Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be

Sunt victorii care duc la un impas, tot aÅŸa cum sunt înfrângeri care deschid c?i noi.

He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out

Rivers knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the proces of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn't going to help you understand. You're not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.

The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

somehow when you live with somebody, when you see them every day, you don't notice that they've changed. People who hardly know them at all see the change in them before you do.

No likely end would bring them loss or leave them happier than before.

how often the early stages of change of cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar...the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

because grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.

Sex discrimination and hate crimes against women don't come from the leather community or its pornography. They occur within contexts like industrial capitalism and marriage that most people take for granted as if they had always existed, like gravity or continental drift. If feminism is going to change the world, it has to focus its critical lens on what most people think is normal, not on what most people think is abnormal.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...