Change Quotes - Page 105

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient. They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become. Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

Words are the small change of thought.

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.