Quotes About Change

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

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Change what you do, not how you think. You are what you do, your happiness is what you attend to, and you should attend to what makes you and those whom you care about happy.

Being too hard on ourselves, and not accepting the fact that we procrastinate, just leads to more procrastination and makes it harder to change. Students

to prime yourself to act differently, the defaults you set up, the commitments you make, and the norms of those you surround yourself with, as well as using these elements to alter your habits.

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

3. When the behavior changes occur in relation to a specific topic or question, that tells the lie catcher this could be a hot area to explore.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.

By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on.

The Law of the Cross saves because it affirms and embodies the "eternal law" that the Dhammapada, in a different context, also realized: "By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the person I was with an eighteen-year-old body. Same person but – thank God – so different!

For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

it is likewise hard to imagine an early farmer announcing to his neighbours: 'I just want to warn you that, as from the next full moon, I intend to assume the powers of leader, and transform our cosy little segmentary society into a modern, thrusting chiefdom at the cutting edge of progress.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.