Change Quotes - Page 19

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change... It will happen automatically and with grace.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.