Change Quotes - Page 77

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

The antidote to climate change is community.

Small changes can make huge destination differences.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.