Change Quotes - Page 12

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love. Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons