Quotes About Change

It may have seemed like an insane thing to do at the time, but somehow...staying in New York would have been even crazier.

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.

Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.

Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.

I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.

I naively thought that all I had to do to pull this off was toss my fat history out like trash. I couldn't make the deal fast enough.

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

Nothing is excluded and the unique nature of every aspect of creation is celebrated. This is how oneness works when it is not just a concept but a living presence. Many patterns and attachments that we think are essential to life will fall away, just as our present structures of power will become redundant. And the wonder of this change is that it need not be gradual, because it belongs to the now. Any real change is always a miracle - it happens through the grace of God.

The Sufi path is subversive rather than confrontational. It works from within, from the Self which lives in the very depths of the unconscious, in the secret recesses of the heart. The changes begin far away from the conscious mind, where they cannot be interfered with. Then slowly the energy of the Self filters into consciousness, where it begins the work of altering our thinking processes.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

is our problem also. So seldom do we learn from past mistakes. We fail to trust God, we get into trouble, and we miss what the mistake has to teach us. We all have compulsive, repetitive patterns that get us into the same old problems again and again. The Lord wants to change that. We can overcome the past, not repeat it. December 12 Heresickness Job 36:1-33 Elihu continued and said, "Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there is yet more to be said in God's behalf.

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

I was one of those heart seeds us kids had heard about in class. I was at some earlier stage of a journey that would deliver me to another place, to another life, into another way of being. I just didn't know where or when.

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.