Quotes About Change

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

A smile can change the situation of the world.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.