Change Quotes - Page 41

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.