Quotes About Change

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?

As distinct from civil disobedience, Intelligent Disobedience works within a system rather than challenging the system itself.

History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

Go with the flow--because you can't fight a tide God sets in motion.

Forget the past. Forgive as God forgave. Forge a new future. It was the man Steven was today that mattered. And that man was worth trusting--and loving.

that will benefit hundreds of people. Maybe thousands.

worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.

But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.

Important events — whether serious, happy or unfortunate — do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves. Such events highlight what is hidden in the shadows, they nudge the spirit towards a place where it can flourish.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Some men Change their party for the sake of their principles and others changetheir principles for the sake of their party.

For God's sake, even her parents no longer read Dostoyevsky--haven't they suffered enough, they would say; after thirty years of communism, didn't they DESERVE Danielle Steele?

You know why they call it the Garden State, don't you? It's like the Garden of Eden-- everyone is from there originally, but no one you meet actually lives there anymore.

Larissa grew quiet, her skin burnished with a rosy glow. Through childhood, she had been the easiest of children, clingy and shy, but eager to please Nadia. The former was just now shedding but a difficult age was looming, when you could visibly see the closing of the gates, your child's mind shutting itself off from you growing impenetrable. Just in the last few months, Nadia watched a new, defiant personality that was pushing against the safe borders carefully crafted for her.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

was sometimes good to revisit what you were so that you could compare it to what you had become.

himself like a comet." "A supernova," Venable said. "He went back to traditional values

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.