Quotes About Change

And then Donald Trump won.

You cant start the next chapter of your life, if you keep re-reading the last one

The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you are going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

Every mistake is a new style.

Fear is an old word that derives from the same roots that give us "fare," as in "thoroughfare." Although it often causes people to run away from troubling situations, at a deeper level, fear means "to go through it." The hidden purpose of fear involves bringing us closer to natural instincts for survival, but also for awakening inner resources and sharpening our intelligence when faced with true danger and the basic need to change.

If we want the world to change, it has to start inside the human soul.

Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." ? Denis Waitley

Time is the enemy of identity

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

Once a certain historical momentum is created I don't think it can be stopped.

the team that had found that people could beat the salt habit simply by refraining from salty foods long enough for their taste buds to return to a normal level of sensitivity.

You know," said Jehangir, breaking the silence, "it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

Townspeople themselves were eager for change and experiment. From their point of view, Catholicism was tied in with customs and festivals that made sense in a farming community. People in towns and cities needed to have their industries work without being interrupted by all the feast days of the Catholic faith.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.

Have you ever heard of a poet named Cavafy?" I told him no. "A Greek poet. Gay, in fact. He wrote a poem about a young dissolute man who tires of his life and resolves to move to a new city and mend his ways. The poet's comment is that moving away is futile because, having ruined his life in one place, he has ruined it everywhere.