Quotes About Change

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

If you want things to be different in your life, you have to make different choices and take different actions.

Change me , I whispered, change me .

exactly half the phenomenal world is gone

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.

Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slant of yellow light.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

most people looking for help with relationship problems react all day to the actions of other people and thereby generate their own negative reactions to people. This, he insists, is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed.

In dealing with a change, a problem, or a discovery, awareness is often followed by a period of acceptance before we can take action. This process is sometimes referred to as the "Three A's" — Awareness, Acceptance, and Action.

An otherwise really sharp lady, it never occurred to her that she had the power to alter her life—by simply choosing to do so.

For one thing, the victim role provides a sense of security by eliminating the need to change. It eliminates the need to even try.

With increasing awareness of both how we feel at any particular moment, and why we have chosen to feel that way, we develop the ability to change our emotional state if we wish to do so. We generate an awareness of whether we have chosen our current feelings or have allowed them to be implanted by an outside person or circumstance.

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

He stopped going to meetings, and no longer follows his exercise program.

Indeed, Robyn Dawes, after criticizing much of modern psychiatric theory, ends her book House of Cards6 with the statement, "Most important of all, there is no evidence that for the majority of people a change of internal state and feeling is necessary prior to behaving in a beneficial way. There is, in contrast, good evidence that changing our behavior will change our internal state and feelings. Just do it." (Emphasis added.)

Meanwhile, Naomi moves on, living her own life while Diane does whatever she is destined to do with hers.

It means that if I don't like the way someone is treating me, I can alter their behavior by first changing my own. I can have a positive influence on the situation.

Since I have, by my behavior, taught them to treat me the way they are treating me, I can often, by changing my behavior, teach them to treat me differently.

It is a basic psychological teaching that if we want to change the way we feel, we must first change the way we act.

I repeatedly tell him that if he wants to feel differently, he has to act differently. He must change his behavior, not hers. I tell him if he changes drastically enough and long enough, she will very likely change. She may temporarily get worse before she gets better, but she will change.