Quotes About Change

After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I'm not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.

Each time I went to a new brother, I'd be a virgin again.

I didn't realize—until this earthquake, until today—that my withholding was a worse kind of betrayal, a betrayal of the self. It was time for me to change.

I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

At an earlier time, she would have read into these gestures what she longed for; now she is grateful and resigned.

And that is how, poised in the sky between our new life and our old one, the life we cannot yet imagine and the one we've already begun to forget, I tell her a tale to make her heart strong, to graft her life onto. For of all things in this world it seems to me that that is what women most need.

But to whom can she say this? Who will listen to her? The power she possessed even a few days ago, as the Sarkar's favourite queen, has faded.

I hid my face in my husband's chest, and the tears that I'd held onto for so long burst from me like a storm. Ram's arms came around me, and I felt, on my forehead, his own tears. Thus we crossed from city to forest, from the known world to the unknown.

much. I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

You know that grief cannot be avoided. And that when it finds a person, they might look the same but they're changed: their missing person has altered the atmosphere in the house, the classroom, the playground; on birthdays and holidays; amongst friends and with the parent who survives.

the patient is a major cause of the ailment. He created the negative thought entities. Through his negative thinking, feeling, and habits, he attracts negative elementals, thereby causing him to become psychologically ill. The patient must change himself. He must change his attitude, his way of thinking and feeling. Otherwise, there will be no lasting cure.

I have been thinking, my love, and on my return, I would like to reveal the truth of us, of myself. I am tired of this restrictive masculine role.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

Maybe, she thought, the reign of malicious sarcasm was over and she could be a good person again.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Actualmente, el «lugar» cada vez importa menos en la fabricación: las ideas triunfan sobre la geografía.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY THAT WE GREW APART