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