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Quotes About Change

Your body is only a garment chosen and worn by your Soul. Have no doubts, but some day your Soul will discard it, and exchange it for a new garment, just like you change your shirts, my friend. Don't fall in love with that temporary garment, and get acquainted with its owner, your Soul.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Your life doesn't improve by Chance, but by Change that you make in it. So, don't just take a Chance, but be a Change Champion.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Dan begin jy voel soos die hond wat die bus gevang het. Ongemaklik. Want dié groot, vet bus loop skynbaar nie net na bestemming Bevordering nie. Daar is ander plekke waar hy ook kan stop.
~ Deon Meyer
I feel strongly that it is the selfish person who needs to change, not the selfless person. (Zhang)
~ Derald Wing Sue
While self-change requires becoming a nonracist person, societal change requires becoming an antiracist one.
~ Derald Wing Sue
Taking responsibility for change means overcoming the inertia and feeling of powerlessness on a personal level. People can grow and change if they are personally willing to confront and unlearn their racist conditioning (Kiselica, 1999; Sue, 2003; Winter, 1977).
~ Derald Wing Sue
Becoming antiracist, therefore, may mean significant changes in how Whites live their lives and may alter their relationships with family, friends, and coworkers as well as affect the environments in which they live (neighborhoods, communities, schools, and worksites).
~ Derald Wing Sue
This change often presents a major challenge because the person may experience loneliness and the type of marginalization that people of color have constantly experienced. For many White Americans, the challenge and isolation may be too much, and they will return to their old ways allowing denial and self-deception to reestablish themselves.
~ Derald Wing Sue
As long as biases remain hidden, however, responsibility for change at the individual, institutional, and societal levels can be avoided. The invisibility of White racial superiority and minority inferiority is a well-kept secret as long as people are not allowed to talk about it.
~ Derald Wing Sue
I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.
~ Derek Fisher
To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead.
~ Derek Heather
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
The sparrow flies south for the winter.
~ Derek Landy
Tides do what tides do–they turn.
~ Derek Landy
You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.
~ Derek Landy
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.
~ Derek Landy
The next time? Oh, my dear Eliza, you're not going to carry on with this, are you? The Faceless Ones had their chance. They returned and they were sent away again. It's time to move on. Time to take up another hobby, like crocheting, or serial killing.
~ Derek Landy
What do we do now?" "Well, we escape. I'm not sure how yet, but—" "No," said Valkyrie. "What do we do now? We're partners. You're my best friend. I love you. You were my… I looked up to you. What am I supposed to do now?" He turned away. "You need to find yourself a new hero.
~ Derek Landy
Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work." -Skulduggery
~ Derek Landy
We may need to focus here.' 'Right. Yes. OK. Turn around.' 'Are you going to throw something at me?' 'What? No, I'm getting out of bed.
~ Derek Landy
He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him.
~ Derek Landy
The end is now the beginning....
~ Derek Landy
I'm no hero," said Scapegrace. "I'm just a man, who used to be a woman, who used to be a man. My name is Vaurien Scapegrace, and I have come here to—
~ Derek Landy
how easily the hunter can become the prey. All it takes is a new perspective.
~ Derek Landy