Quotes About Change

Being an immigrant is not for the admin-phobic.

the fact that I was dreaming of retirement at the age of 33 was probably an indicator that something had to change. I

Santo hermano mío, piensa en esto por un momento: el mundo que ves no hace nada. 2 No tiene efectos. 3 No es otra cosa que la representación de tus pensamientos. 4 Y será completamente distinto cuando elijas cambiar de parecer y decidas que lo que realmente deseas es el júbilo de Dios.

Por qué esperar al Cielo? Los que buscan la luz están simplemente cubriéndose los ojos. 3 La luz ya está en ellos. 4 La iluminación es simplemente un reconocimiento, no un cambio.

The Course asks us to read its words slowly and carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this with the Text, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled and a new worldview arising in its place.

A miracle is a shift in perception. ["A Course In Miracles", a metaphysical text]

A Course in Miracles defines "miracle" as a divine healing of human perception; a change of mind that shifts perception from fear and guilt to love and forgiveness. This higher level of perception heals the mind from pain and suffering and places it in the service of spirit.

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I love changing the way I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

But feelings don't shift unless they're accepted exactly the way they are, neither more nor less. If they're intense, they're intense! Once they're accepted, they'll change into another form. But until then, they'll stick around. Bonnie,

A person might say, for example, "I am scared because the world is a dangerous place" and therefore never stop being afraid, because the world's not going to change. Feelings are always a mix of internal and external reality. If this person fully listened to her fear as a feeling inside her, not as a fact about the world, she'd become much clearer about what she was afraid of, and why, and what she could do about the fear.

So, Elizabeth will have to ascend the throne without me. Teeth are all I am going to see crowned for the next couple of years.

Changing the conversation in the room was more important than playing it safe.

Fall. Rain. Wind. Depressing! And it was only going to get worse. Chilly, overcast weather was forecast for the rest of November. Then again, October had been beautiful. The autumn leaves glowing red, yellow, and orange; glorious sunshine; blue skies; and a wonderful crispness in the air. But unfortunately those days were gone. It was the first week in November; dead leaves swirled around in the wind, rain clouds hung low over Gothenburg, and the contours of the city dissolved in the damp mist.

Non c'è nulla che possiamo ritrovare nel modo in cui lo abbiamo lasciato.Il tempo non si arresta e cambia le cose.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.

Dat is de ellende : je wilt in geen geval nog een keer jonger, stommer zijn, maar je wilt ook niet ouder worden, en ondanks alle ervaring heb je geen vertrouwen in de ouderdom, je wilt jezelf en de wereld om je heen diepvriezen, je bent niet superieur genoeg om gewoon te genieten van wat er is.

If there are any among us who are at their wit's end, they ought to try for once to put aside all their grievances and perhaps even all their petitions and simply praise God, in order to turn their hearts to the end of the ways of God, where the eternal liturgy resounds in heaven. Nothing so changes us—precisely in the darkest moments of life—as the praise of God.