Quotes About Change

It is only when the pain of perpetuating old behavior patterns is perceived to be greater than the pain brought about by trying to change those patterns that we are able to effect and sustain significant psychological and behavioral modifications.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

True penitents say to their idols, "Get you hence; what have we to do any more with idols?

Conversion and sanctification are the renewing of the mind, a change not of the substance, but of the qualities of the soul.

And so great is the change the grace of God makes in the soul, that, as it follows, old things are passed away – old thoughts, old principles, and old practices, are passed away; and all these things must become new. Note, Regenerating grace creates a new world in the soul; all things are new. The renewed man acts from new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company.

Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor

the regrettable past should be left to languish wherever it took itself when it was finished being the enjoyable present

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

The reason most of us fail to achieve real and sustainable change in our lives is because we focus too much on the desired outcome and not enough on the progress we are making.

The first problem is we don't believe holiness is possible. The second problem is we don't believe we can change the world.

Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.

Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness.

Are we willing to change? I hope so. Almost every person I speak to about the future of Catholicism says, "The Church really needs to change," or something to that effect. What we perhaps forget in making this statement is that we are the Church, and so the real question becomes: Are you willing to change? Am I willing to change?

We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?

People come into our lives for a reason. Some are messengers; other are teachers. Some are healers, and others are coaches and counselors. Some people come into our lives for only a season, but their fingerprints remain all over our lives until the end.

Choices got you here, but if you don't like "here" all you need to do is start making different choices.

Some people come into our lives for only a season, but their fingerprints remain all over our lives until the end

The point is our actions can tip the balance between hope and despair.

If you have ever been on the receiving end of carlessness, you know it changes you.

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.