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b12dea5 Be the change that you wish to see in the world. action change inspirational philosophy wish Mahatma Gandhi
b6e2a4a Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. activism attributed-no-source change inspirational life philosophy world Margaret Mead
547b678 Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. change discworld growth travel Terry Pratchett
ac882aa It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. change focus grow growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking stay-focused step-out-of-comfort-zone transform Roy T. Bennett
dc86cc1 The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. change growth inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons C. JoyBell C.
5b94198 If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. change growth inspirational letting-go life mistakes Steve Maraboli
58f3134 Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. appreciate change happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring laugh life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking relationship respect smile value Roy T. Bennett
2d167d7 Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. change inspirational Barack Obama
15116b4 Don't Jus act action change criticize doing dream dreams encouragement experience feeling giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes listening living optimism optimistic ponder positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thinking transform Roy T. Bennett
db113e8 When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. change courage life Paulo Coelho
30cc5f8 You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. achievement change comfort-zone courage dream dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone Roy T. Bennett
b653c92 Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. change control empowerment inspirational letting-go life motivational Steve Maraboli
ce05dfe Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. change inspirational self-determination Maya Angelou
e7de926 In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth Dorothy Parker
c5e1f8e How would your life be different if...You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day...You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey. action assumption change compassion inspirational judging kindness life respect success Steve Maraboli
9e3c9d6 Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. change inspirational motivational perception Wayne W. Dyer
f4f3de2 It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life. change inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
4e87722 Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. change choice choices excuse inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
8513c05 We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. growth inspirational learning-from-mistakes past change Rick Warren
ce285c2 You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes. change inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
d39ad0c You cannot change what you are, only what you do. change life self-determination Philip Pullman
662f2e6 No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. change inspirational self-actualization self-improvement Madonna
c89a2c4 Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! action attachment change inspirational letting-go life live-now motivational success today Steve Maraboli
86929a4 I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do. change character-defining character-quote growth growth-life inspirational inspirational-attitude inspiring learning life-and-living random stubbornness unpredictable C. JoyBell C.
b86ba9a Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. appreciation change gratitude inspirational life live-now motivational success today Steve Maraboli
7a63f51 Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. activism change inspirational perseverance Ovid
86e9414 We are the music-makers change courage dream dreams inspirational music Arthur O'Shaughnessy
3ed4496 So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. complacency inspirational change Jon Krakauer
a83e5ef Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you! action change destiny empowerment inspirational life mistakes motivational success Steve Maraboli
b6ae32e If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. brilliance change contests data facts forget government happiness ignorance information motion peace philosophy politics popular questioning taxation thinking war worry Ray Bradbury
faef105 Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. action anger change grudges inspirational life living-in-the-present motivational poison resentment seize-the-day soul success Steve Maraboli
b7ea387 Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. change failure failures inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-going keep-moving-forward learn learning life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic perseverance positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking risk success Roy T. Bennett
5f86d1e Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. burroughs change escape inspirational William S. Burroughs
b59419b The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. action change inspirational journey letting-go life Steve Maraboli
c38fe6b How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us attitude change courage depression dragons fears helplessness inspirational poetry sadness strength transformation weakness Rainer Maria Rilke
3400d82 The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions. actions change inspirational intent motivational success thoughts universe Steve Maraboli
084df20 People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop. action change determination empowerment inspirational life motivational success Steve Maraboli
5ecedcc Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around. change happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
af27166 Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. change growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
f926893 The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. change comfort-zone inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
255a8f0 How would your life be different if...You stopped worrying about things you can't control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day...You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. action change control inspirational intent life motivational seize-the-day worry Steve Maraboli
79fae87 Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again change inspirational self-awareness Rumi
90206e3 Change course, but don't give up. change inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational never-give-up optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
10ac14c Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. change inspirational self-confidence self-esteem trying Tina Fey
9a27f60 One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. change inspirational Martin Luther King Jr.
c594e33 You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. change hope inspiration inspirational life past Ann Brashares
32c8cc4 It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. change inspirational motivation James Gordon
db0b296 "We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly." change fools perfection wisdom Ray Bradbury
b40c8ca "Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!" change growing-up island marry L.M. Montgomery
e646ffd Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer. action change inspirational life mission motivational purpose self-empowerment Steve Maraboli
43681b3 A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. inspirational change Richard Bach
4f51118 Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward - your breakthrough may be just around the corner. breakthrough change faith inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring just-around-the-corner keep-moving-forward life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking stay-positive Roy T. Bennett
d2e4bfd Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artists who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances. An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally. That's why Bob Dylan is an artist, but an anonymous corporate hack who dreams up Pop 40 hits on the other side of the glass is merely a marketer. That's why Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is an artists, while a boiler room of telemarketers is simply a scam. Tom Peters, corporate gadfly and writer, is an artists, even though his readers are businesspeople. He's an artists because he takes a stand, he takes the work personally, and he doesn't care if someone disagrees. His art is part of him, and he feels compelled to share it with you because it's important, not because he expects you to pay him for it. Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. artists change courage creativity meaning passion work Seth Godin
6485917 The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. change happiness inspirational personal-responsibility potential power responsibility success victim Steve Maraboli
1f7aad5 "It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time." change generations good-people indifference repentance silence social-justice social-movements violence vitriol Martin Luther King Jr.
0d96a80 No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? action change destiny history inspirational life motivational seize-the-day success today Steve Maraboli
da3e6d7 Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. agreement-with-reality change inspirational life mindset motivational Steve Maraboli
db807e3 I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. change inspirational life life-lessons love relationship Deb Caletti
da5e280 Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. change freedom friend holy hospitality other space stranger Henri J.M. Nouwen
e04f3fd It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers. change intelligence strength H.G. Wells
cd23325 I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. change excitement inspirational Sylvia Plath
9d20cf3 How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self. action change destiny empowerment history inspirational life motivational opportunity Steve Maraboli
f276e77 Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act? change change-the-world Tamora Pierce
43a79a0 But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt like home to him, of the despair in Jace's voice as he said 'I want to hate you', and of Magnus, not telling Jace the truth: that Alec did not want Jace to know about his relationship because he was still in love with him. She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar. change clary-fray dreams jace-wayland luke-garroway magnus-bane sadness seelie-queen simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
69c6fd1 Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. change distance inspirational Rohinton Mistry
b9ce833 Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. achievement change comfort-zone courage dream dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone Roy T. Bennett
3dfb0dd The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change. change defiance history opposition self-assurance Howard Zinn
ee7ba29 I change the world, the world changes me. change gemma-doyle inspirational world Libba Bray
1644dcd Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. action change inspirational letting-go life motivational simplicity spiritual-growth Steve Maraboli
c77a1ee It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. change singularity the-singularity Isaac Asimov
cec2b1c Everything is within your power change change-life change-quotes change-the-world change-your-life change-your-mind empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouragement encouragement-and-attitude encouragement-quotes encouraging encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inner-strength inspirational inspiring inspiring-quote inspiring-quotes law-of-attraction motivating motivational motivational-quotes personal-development positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power power-of-the-subconscious-mind power-of-thoughts power-of-will power-of-women powerful powerful-quotes powerful-women powerful-words self-empowered self-empowerment self-healing self-help self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quote self-help-quotes self-improvement spiritual spiritual-quote spiritual-wisdom strength strength-of-mind strength-of-spirit strong strong-will strong-willed strong-woman strong-women subconscious uplifting Janice Trachtman
6311925 The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. behavior change conversation day fear love plans tension truth waiting Paulo Coelho
be75e1b But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. change inspirational Michael Pollan
bb57597 Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. cataclysm change humanity humility life perseverance revelation-of-self tragedy transformation Marianne Williamson
2c6b959 We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses. change C.G. Jung
c232494 You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing. change consumerism individuality loss memories modern-society mom-and-pop-stores neighborhoods new-york-city retail transience Colson Whitehead
5f15eb8 I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand. change death life maturing Ray Bradbury
ceb65ab In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. change courage future hope inequalities justice race Cornel West
f12d3ef Things change when you're not in danger anymore. change danger life Mitch Albom
aaf417a Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change change changes death death-and-dying fear fear-of-death fear-of-unknown reality Isabel Allende
108a015 The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings. bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil Gillian Flynn
fcf191b Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole. change muggles revision J.K. Rowling
3ace148 The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. change life Truman Capote
bbeb61d Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life. change change-life Thomas Pynchon
7d03d0a You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended. change nick-hornby relationships Nick Hornby
2c82744 We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up. change grace life moving-forward plans vitality Joseph Campbell
f4c2b6c Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. change love rebirth Libba Bray
b402d86 "I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years." change percy Rick Riordan
50f3789 ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia change growing-up running-away E L Konigsburg
d833a65 All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. change civilization detachment journalism mankind poverty pulitzer-prize war war-reporting David Baldacci
428ba8b Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. change dresden-files fire Jim Butcher
f0f0ca5 Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? cause-and-effect chain-of-events chance change choice circumstance crime fate free-will good-and-evil intention long-term opposites result results time H. Rider Haggard
a9a809c We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. change W. Somerset Maugham
e9f805b If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. change don-t my on Shel Silverstein
8df2669 Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. change enthusiasm inner-strength inner-voice negative-thinking negativity positive-thinking revolution Joseph Campbell
6b584f8 Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. change character jealousy nature transformation Arthur Conan Doyle
61fe32c Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute. change coercion Allen Ginsberg
8ef1121 To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. change inspiration politics Rebecca Solnit
aac8a24 I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimes it looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar but different in the reflection. A few times, I caught the switch in mid-stare, my expression re-forming like melting rubber, the creases and features of my face softening or hardening until the mutation was complete. Jekyll to Hyde, or Hyde to Jekyll. I felt my inner core change at the same time. I would feel more confident or less confident; mature or childlike; freezing cold or sticky hot, a state that would drive Mum mad as I escaped to the bathroom where I would remain for two hours scrubbing my skin until it was raw. The change was triggered by different emotions: on hearing a particular piece of music; the sight of my father, the smell of his brand of aftershave. I would pick up a book with the certainty that I had not read it before and hear the words as I read them like an echo inside my head. Like Alice in the Lewis Carroll story, I slipped into the depths of the looking glass and couldn't be sure if it was me standing there or an impostor, a lookalike. I felt fully awake most of the time, but sometimes while I was awake it felt as if I were dreaming. In this dream state I didn't feel like me, the real me. I felt numb. My fingers prickled. My eyes in the mirror's reflection were glazed like the eyes of a mannequin in a shop window, my colour, my shape, but without light or focus. These changes were described by Dr Purvis as mood swings and by Mother as floods, but I knew better. All teenagers are moody when it suits them. My Switches could take place when I was alone, transforming me from a bright sixteen-year-old doing her homework into a sobbing child curled on the bed staring at the wall. The weeping fit would pass and I would drag myself back to the mirror expecting to see a child version of myself. 'Who are you?' I'd ask. I could hear the words; it sounded like me but it wasn't me. I'd watch my lips moving and say it again, 'Who are you? amnesia change child dissociated-state dissociation dissociative dissociative-identity-disorder dream-like dreaming emotion emotionals identity identity-alternation identity-confusion identity-crisis identity-switch impostor incest lookalike memory-loss mental-health mirror multiple-personality-disorder personality-switch sexual-abuse split-personality survivor trauma trigger triggered unreal unreality Alice Jamieson
2d32aaa You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you. change love Christine Feehan
3267a24 There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct - not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. change inertia influence willpower Thomas Hardy
50c383c All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. change inspirational Kim Stanley Robinson
c0be49c Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. change compassion conscience conviction guilt hell hunger indifference power rationalization starvation stewardship tolstoy Randy Alcorn
bfa429f And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be. belief change death faith life soul spirit alice walker
48713fb Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later, sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope. change inspirational politics Rebecca Solnit
52e328f That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. change feel power speaking true words Nicholas Sparks
4633f8c "I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them." change L.M. Montgomery
7c5448f Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. change learning travel Jack Kerouac
745b214 So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. change dissonance sanctification Edith Wharton
ae45ac6 Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth. change growth life Richard Flanagan
b82ee9b As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. change evolution life nature Charles Darwin
c0d5972 For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see. change darkness grief loss Haruki Murakami
62a8541 When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change. change restlessness trapped Rob Bell
e989235 The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live. aging blueprints change growing-older Barbara Delinsky
0629cfd The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was only remotely like the woman I fell in love with. It had been an awful fairy-tale reverse transformation. Over just a few years, the old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the east ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and out stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy. My wife was no longer my wife but a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of solving Amy. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebook on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings. My old Amy, damn, she was fun. She was fun. She made me laugh. I'd forgotten that. And she laughed, From the bottom of her throat, from right behind that small finger-shaped hollow, which is the best place to laugh from. She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. change dangerous love misperception wife Gillian Flynn
b513482 I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. change drugs glbtq haircut identity life possibilities Michael Cunningham
a5200a3 You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. change gratitude thanks Sarah Ban Breathnach
e6760b7 The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. alcohol americans bar bourbon change changes drinking electronic-books electronic-revolution electronic-software electronics new-age recession sarcasm technology the-future the-internet the-past the-public the-recession tv video-games Gillian Flynn
3e42562 I had not said anything about what had happened the day before--about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one. change fear lonliness Sharon Creech
9270129 God is immutable--He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant! change christian constant faith god love ministry never target Elizabeth George
7b3d2a9 Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever. capture change fade fled flower history hold-on past preserve reality remember time write writing Robin Hobb
9dba995 Me--a teenager? If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me, would I need to treat her as near and dear, although she's strange to me, and distant? Shed a tear, kiss her brow for the simple reason that we share a birthdate? So many dissimilarities between us that only the bones are likely still the same, the cranial vault, the eye sockets. Since her eyes seem a little larger, her eyelashes are longer, she's taller, and the whole body is tightly sheathed in smooth, unblemished skin. Relatives and friends still link us, it is true, but in her world nearly all are living, while in mine almost no one survives from that shared circle. We differ so profoundly, talk and think about completely different things. She knows next to nothing-- but with a doggedness deserving better causes. I know much more-- but not for sure. She shows me poems, written in a clear and careful script I haven't used for years. I read the poems, read them. Well, maybe that one if it were shorter and touched up in a couple of places. The rest do not bode well. The conversation stumbles. On her pathetic watch time is still cheap and unsteady. On mine it's far more precious and precise. Nothing in parting, a fixed smile and no emotion. Only when she vanishes, leaving her scarf in her haste. A scarf of genuine wool, in colored stripes crocheted for her by our mother. I've still got it. change growth poetry self youth Wisława Szymborska
d5e05fa The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees--a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform like caterpillars into butterflies. They become whole new people as if overnight. change youth Michael J. Sullivan
000fbff Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn't the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs. And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable. But there were always emergencies, weren't there? change dignity freedom good-apples police-state Cory Doctorow
74f3e14 Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities. change christian day faith god hope joy love priorities start Elizabeth George
7ab6e6a "[Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers." change fashions georgia individuality prosperity savannah separateness society John Berendt
21a2c3e in these shitty plastic days ... a-new-era a-new-world change changes destruction electronic-revolution fake human-nature life-sucks loss new-age plastic stuck-in-a-rut technology the-good-days-are-gone the-past the-world Gillian Flynn
2c36213 Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her? His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope. change dead death decision hope murder murderer zombies Richard Matheson
150f1b5 It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. abuse-survivor change comfort defence dehumanisation persona tree wood Alice Walker
f90a27d Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn. change christianity eternity life upside-down Randy Alcorn
57ee32e The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter. change colors fall fire love passionate running seasons trees winter V.C. Andrews
cac94a0 "Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did." act advice alone and apostle are attracted avoid away be bear bed beyond can change chastity circumstances commandments compromise considered continue culture day did do door eternal failure first follow girl glad go god-s guy he head help her him hold honor house important intended is keep knows let likely may mocked moral narrow near never not old-fashioned path paul place preserve principle proberbs promise reason relationship remeber result right scriptures she should single-date slower solomon someone son sounds standards stay tempted those to trust trying use very virginity wants what-you whims who whom will with words would wrong you you-ll your James C. Dobson
bf3f574 Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. 12-steps alcohol-abuse alcohol-addiction alcoholism change chris-prentiss drug-abuse drug-addiction non-12-step-program passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss philosophy recovery society substance-addiction treatment Chris Prentiss
7eae607 "How old are you?" "About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, "And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it." change Neil Gaiman
f4560e3 The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to things; we want to be through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods. change desires life material-goods materialism necessity psychology purchases Alain de Botton
bfba2b0 I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market. change charm delight discover elixir familiar find know knowledge love man men minstrel playboy potion sincere sincerity time true truth woman women Robin Hobb
1acf1a5 You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are--start there. change life A.M. Homes
4a5a76d ...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry Robin Hobb
5ddc8cd Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough! change corpses dead death humour normality undead usual zombies Richard Matheson
85b8708 "Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?" "I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back." But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her." change falling-apart marriage nostalgia relationships Jodi Picoult
af1eecc Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away. change dystopia realization world-view Ray Bradbury
e0b8cbf He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them. change counseling vulnerability Victor Hugo
5322620 "Oh, I'm Chrissy Mackenzie, I'm from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism," the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. "You got any advice?" "Search me," Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. "I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it's in favor of all that "go green" hippie crap." "Oh, well...." Chrissy seemed taken aback, offended, and Mandy sighed a fourth time. "Damn it, I'm really sorry," she apologized, smiling dismally at the aspiring writer. "It's just been a really lousy day for me and I wasn't really thinking. My advice? Find your own cause to represent, not one thrown out into society by a ton of environmentalist dopes. Find something new, something you think could be improved, and work from there." Chrissy smiled with a look of total ecstasy as if the words of some nobody woman were important. Mandy momentarily noticed the groups of laughing, drunk, giggling people, all acting childish... and for a moment she wished she could be them." cape-breton change drea drunk environmntal friend gol hippie hope ice-cube improve journalist joy nova-scotia peace pollution sad vancouver world Rebecca McNutt
2dbda2e Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing. change floating life Ruth Ozeki
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