Quotes About Change

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I would plan, I would never experience anything new. My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Viagiar descanta, ma chi parte mona torna mona

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them. Letter 131 To Milton Waldman

That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Pakistan's unfortunate history may justify the description of Pakistan as being 'insufficiently imagined', but imagination is by definition not a finite process. An entity that is insufficiently imagined can be reimagined

Then the old man said something that set the ground for the change that would occur in Ashraf s life: 'Don't you want to take revenge?

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide, some just melted into the background, some retreated to their native villages – while others ended up hawking vegetables beneath the very structures that gave them their bread and butter.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

Difficulty relaxing    Insomnia    Impatience    Taking on too much responsibility      Recent major life change (marriage, divorce, birth of child, death of close relative, purchase of home, new job, loss of job, etc.)    Irritability    Tension headaches    Sense of isolation from others    Difficulty delegating  

The third natural law: Growth is the process of changing principles on your Belief Window.

The principle on the Belief Window has to change first or the behavior will never change.

Unless the belief changes, the behavior will not change.