Quotes About Change

Trying to cheer yourself up isn't easy, and sometimes it feels hypocritical, like going against the grain. But the reminder is that if you want to change your habitual stuckness, you're the only one who can do it.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something different.

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don't magically disappear. Over the years, I've come to call resting with the discomfort "the detox period," because when you don't act on your habitual reactions, it's like giving up an addiction. You're left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved. Shakyamuni Buddha said that more than twenty-five hundred years ago, but it seems that some things never change.

Rudolph Bahro. He writes, "When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who are not afraid to be insecure.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

To get rid of anger you can change the situation or change how you think about the situation.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.