316 quotes
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
— Jacob M. Braude
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays through faith”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
— Unknown
“All that exists changes.”
— Heraclitus
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“Real change is brought about through kindness practiced moment by moment day by day”
— Sharon Salzberg
“All is change; all yields its place and goes.”
— Euripides
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Time brings all things to pass.”
— Aeschylus
“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
— Carl Rogers
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
— Abraham Maslow
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“Even in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.”
“Time the devourer of all things.”
— Ovid
“The only thing that is constant is change. Finding peace within change is wisdom.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“If people dont like the situation they are in they can change it. They are not trees. Peace is always possible.”
— Mikhail Gorbachev
“The only thing that is constant is change”
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
— Alvin Toffler
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“Happiness is not the belief that we do not need to change; it is the realization that we can.”
— Shawn Achor
“We cannot change what we are not aware of and once we are aware we cannot help but change”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
— Carl Jung
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is change”
— Octavia Butler
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
— Margaret Mead
“All change is hard at first messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end”
— Robin Sharma
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance and dancing is itself healing”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
— Charles Kettering
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
— Laozi
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
— Socrates
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
— Bertolt Brecht
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing themselves and that inner change requires faith”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be the peace you wish to see.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
— Marcel Proust
“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
— Tony Robbins
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly through time”
— Henri Bergson
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
“A small step makes a big change.”
— Anonymous
“In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“One cannot step twice in the same river.”
“Open your arms to change but do not let go of your values.”
— Dalai Lama
“In this world nothing is certain people and things are always changing”
— Murasaki Shikibu
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
— Albert Einstein
“Every great change is preceded by chaos”
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
— Thoreau
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now without delay.”
“Do not fear change. Change is the beginning of opportunity.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
— Steve Jobs
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.”
— Washington Irving
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion”
— Paulo Coelho
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.”
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”
— Muhammad Ali
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
“What is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.”
“We live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings”
“Remember you have been criticizing yourself for years and it has not worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
— Louise Hay
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
“Dont live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
“Small changes make a big difference.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Dan Millman
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way”
— Grace Hopper
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness.”
“You are one decision away from a totally different life”
— Mel Robbins
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear”
“I realized that I can change myself for the better.”
— Carlos Castaneda
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself especially after failure”
“If we keep doing what were doing, were going to keep getting what were getting.”
— Brendon Burchard
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be”
— John Wooden
“Change brings opportunity.”
— Nido Qubein
“You can not go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis
“The only constant in life is change.”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change through self-compassion”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation in family we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
— Haruki Murakami
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new through faith”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
— William James
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
— Stephen Hawking
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.”
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“The only permanent thing is change.”
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion and compassion is the greatest example”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
“I very frequently get the question what is going to change in the next ten years but the question should be what is not going to change and how does time shape that”
— Jeff Bezos
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
“Creativity is the power to reject the past and change the status quo”
— Ai Weiwei
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T.S. Eliot
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and faith is what prevents the reduction”
— Maya Angelou
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Open your arms to change but dont let go of your values keep your life simple by holding what matters”
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and our efforts to find lasting healing pleasure become a source of suffering until we learn to rest in change”
— Tara Brach
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
— W.B. Yeats
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
— Bill Clinton
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced with compassion”
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and compassion holds us steady”
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”
“It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.”
— Neville Goddard
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“Small changes make a big transformation.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow”
“No one ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and we are not the same person and this is wonder”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The moment you believe in yourself, everything changes.”
“The universe is change and our life is what our thoughts make it and faith transforms our thoughts into channels of grace”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Peace and change are always possible.”
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“People do not resist change they resist being changed”
— Peter Senge
“In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.”
— Chade-Meng Tan
“Sometimes it is the smallest decision that can change your life forever.”
— Keri Russell
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves and faith enables that change”
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
— Philip Pullman
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept”
— Angela Davis
“If you want to change the fruits you have to change the roots.”
— T. Harv Eker
“If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.”
“Nothing happens unless you challenge.”
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.”
— Debby Boone
“The times they are a-changin.”
— Bob Dylan
“A single attempt can change history.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“Change is the only constant in life.”
“The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy.”
— Abraham Cowley
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“The universe is change. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Choose thoughts of peace.”
“Change begins with enduring discomfort.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“All change begins with pleasure.”
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
“One cannot step twice into the same river.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through that fill us with wonder”
“It is the people who must save the environment. It is the people who must make their leaders change.”
— Wangari Maathai
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you”
“If you do not like something change it. If you cannot change it change your attitude.”
“You are one decision away from a totally different life.”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
— Jim Rohn
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world.”
“The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required”
— Anthony Storr
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new”
“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
“Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change”
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
— Harold Wilson
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
— Anatole France
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“Loss is nothing else but change and change is the delight of nature.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes do not resist them that only creates sorrow”
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing begins”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”
“You are one decision away from a completely different life”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformation”
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“One of the most challenging aspects of healing is the willingness to accept that your life has changed forever”
— Caroline Myss
“The wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.”
“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”
— Mother Teresa
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
— Karl Marx
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“If you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude”
“To reach a state you have never been you must do what you have never done.”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way but time demands change”
“Without action, there can be no change.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
“Everything changes.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“To achieve goals you have never achieved before, you need to start doing things you have never done before.”
— Stephen Covey
“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.”
— Diane Ackerman
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. This is the peace of change.”
“To listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear and that is healing”
— Mark Nepo
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