Quotes About Change

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.