Quotes About Change

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.

On niitä jotka jäävät ja toisia jotka lähtevät, niin on ollut aina. Kukin saa valita itse, mutta on valittava ajoissa, eikä koskaan saa antaa periksi.

When Paul went to prison, I cried at first. Not for Paul but for me. Then I started to behave strangely. Wild. Restless.

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

The plan is: there is no plan.

I must fight against the regret that would see me defeated. I cannot change what has happened, but it needn't separate me from a happy future.

It would be nice if we could snap our fingers and become better people instantly," Mother sounded sympathetic. "Unfortunately, change is a journey we must take one step at a time. Give it over to God and rest in Him.

very difficult to cross, and there are still problems with the Indians from time to time. There are the renegade bands to contend with." Adrian nodded and fixed her with an intense gaze. "There are troubles, to be sure, but the railroad is going to change your world, Miss Gallatin.

The past isn't something we can change or enhance. It cannot be rearranged or made over to better satisfy our current state. I firmly believe that God wants us to put the past to rest—as if it has died and we are burying it. Once a person dies and you bury them, you have no means by which you can bring them back to life. Even in memory, they are still gone. In the same way, the past is still gone, even when you dwell on it.

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

You can't change the world in the space of a single conversation, can you?

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

The American leaders could only bring this new realm of possibility into existence by making a declaration—a form of conversation. Once human rights were declared, actions that would never have been conceived before came naturally to mind.

Until you have re-invented yourself to be personally free from the constraints and limitations of your own past (including your own past success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

Language is the only leverage for changing the context of the world around you. This is because people apprehend and construct reality through the way they speak and listen.

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

But you can invent a future that is not based on the past and is unrelated to the past.

You are shifting from … … action occurring as "a series of activities"… … to … … action occurring as a series of conversations.

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

For as long as your Winning Strategy is your ground of being, it will never occur to you to take any actions beyond it.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)