Quotes About Change

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

A strong spirit can change and achieve everything. I know

change, even a tiny one, in the way we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world can significantly change our existence

We have come to take the dysfunctional aspect of ourselves for granted without realizing that it is possible to free ourselves from the vicious circle that is exhausting us.

Understanding that the essential nature of consciousness is neutral permits us to understand that it is possible to change our mental universe. We can transform the content of our thoughts and experiences.

Dividimos el mundo entero en "deseable" e "indeseable", concedemos permanencia a lo que es efímero y percibimos como cualidades autónomas lo que en realidad es una red infinita de relaciones que cambian sin cesar.

change, even a tiny one, in the way we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world can significantly change our existence. Changing the way we experience transitory emotions leads to a change in our moods and to a lasting transformation of our way of being. Such "therapy" targets the sufferings that afflict most of us and seeks to promote the optimal flourishing of the human being.

Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

Understanding that the essential nature of consciousness is neutral permits us to understand that it is possible to change our mental universe. We can transform the content of our thoughts and experiences. The neutral and luminous background of our consciousness provides us with the space we need to observe mental events, rather than being at their mercy, and then to create the conditions necessary to transform them.

neuroplasticity', a term which takes into account the fact that the brain evolves continuously in relation to our experience, and that a particular training, such as learning a musical instrument or a sport, can bring about a profound change.

L'utopie ne signifie pas l'irréalisable, mais l'irréalisé. L'utopie d'hier peut devenir la réalité d'aujourd'hui.

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

The years went by too quickly, that was the trouble. By the time you figured out that the times you were living were the best, they were over and nothing more remained than a few blurry snapshots and a handful of memories.

Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!

If anything, I have learned that the worst pain never comes when I think it will, and never returns in the exact same way. You go to bed with one pain and wake up with another. It wears as many disguises as a masker at a ball. [Édouard Manet]

how it does rankle to be the 'old,' to be the one who is no longer courted. To be the one that no one tries any longer to please. [Édouard Manet]

Age is so misleading--you are the same on the inside as ever, only your outsides are different. Or, perhaps you have changed, but it is not like the younger self goes away--you just go on adding layers to the onion. [Édouard Manet]