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Quotes About Change

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
~ William James
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
~ William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
~ William James
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
~ William James
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.
~ William James
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
~ William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
~ William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.
~ William James
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
~ William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
~ William James
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
~ William James
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds
~ William James
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
~ William James
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
~ William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~ William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
~ William Jones
I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.
~ William Joyce
and Morris Lesmore became stooped and crinkly. But the books never changed. Their stories stayed the same. Now his old friends took care of him the way he once cared for them...
~ William Joyce
Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.
~ William Kennedy
We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move
~ William Kennedy
LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.
~ William Kent Krueger
Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.
~ William Kent Krueger
In every sinner is the possibility of a saint.
~ William Kent Krueger
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
~ William Kent Krueger