Quotes About Change

Small actions can cause great harm, especially when those actions become habits. So just a little tiny change in the right place at the right time, everything will be much better.

Buddhism teaches us to recognize these cycles of impermanence and have the courage to accept them.

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

Però, vedete, se voi desiderate prendere una lepre, che le diate la caccia con i cani o col falco, a piedi o a cavallo, resterà sempre una lepre. La libertà, invece, non rimane mai la stessa, cambia a seconda della caccia. E se addestrate dei cani a catturarla per voi, è facile che vi riportino una libertà da cani.

Dovevano cambiare molte cose perché il passato avesse un futuro.

Questo è l'arte: saper interpretare lo spirito del proprio tempo, saper cogliere il vento del cambiamento e prendere il largo a gonfie vele.

Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.

It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more.

Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.

If you're to achieve the peace, joy, and spiritual fulfillment that you want so badly, it depends upon one thing and one thing only— your willingness to simply do something different.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

My father used to say, "If you want to be different, do something different."

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.

If we don't cast a ballot, it's going to end up in a situation where we're going to have to cast a bullet. It's either a ballot or a bullet.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?" In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.