Quotes About Change

But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

Es gibt Krisen, die dadurch entstehen, daß sich eine neue Kraft bildet, die zum Sturm auf das Bestehende ansetzt. Und es gibt auch Krisen, die entstehen dadurch oder bestehen darin, daß man sie dafür hält.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

Il faut savoir recommencer sa vie, sinon on vieillit vite.

himself: after the locomotive

the most fundamental and radical of these changes is learning how to love and accept your precious body right now. It is, after all, the temple that houses your soul.

The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to this: To live an easy life, you have to align with the Divine part of yourself. In fact, you have to let it lead your life. This is not the same as waiting for some kind of Divine force outside of you to come swooping in to rescue you from your life. That's not how it works. You have to make an effort to make changes. But when you align your personal will with Divine will, then you can move mountains. Much

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.

Paramahansa Yogananda said, "Everyone has self-limiting idiosyncrasies. They were not put into your nature by God, but were created by you. These are what you must change—by remembering that these habits, peculiar to your nature, are nothing but manifestations of your own thoughts.

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path." She smiled sadly. "Even if that choice comes a little late.

How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

Knowing he couldn't go back to

If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probably but inevitable.

Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens, and your life changes irrevocably, you may find along with the pain a kind of grace. And in the place of certainty and fear—the fear of losing what you had—you are left with something startling: a depth of empathy, a quivering sensitivity to the world around you, and the unexpected blessing of gratitude for what remains.

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I ask. "Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in." I consider this for a moment. "What if it's too small but you still want to live there?" She sighs. "Gracious, child, what a question. I suppose you'll either have to be brave and find a new home or you'll have to live inside a broken shell.

How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people's strengths become flaws!)

I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.