Change Quotes - Page 20

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

You can do anything you decide to do.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.