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b12dea5 Be the change that you wish to see in the world. action change philosophy inspirational 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. attributed-no-source world change life philosophy inspirational activism 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. travel change growth discworld Terry Pratchett
ac882aa It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. step-out-of-comfort-zone stay-focused leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational transform grow leader leaders growth focus 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. inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living change life-lessons inspirational growth 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. letting-go change life inspirational growth 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 relationship inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational value smile respect laugh 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 action criticize dream learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life dreams change inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote transform act feeling doing giving encouragement ponder experience listening life-philosophy thinking 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. courage change 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. start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone courage dream leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation dreams change inspiring motivational life inspirational comfort-zone achievement leader leaders 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. letting-go change empowerment motivational life inspirational control 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. self-determination change inspirational 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. men nature youth women character change empowerment love wisdom pleasing self-discovery truthfulness self-respect self-esteem 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 kindness compassion change success life inspirational judging respect assumption Steve Maraboli
9e3c9d6 Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. change motivational inspirational 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
4e87722 Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational excuse choices Roy T. Bennett
8513c05 We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. past change inspirational learning-from-mistakes growth Rick Warren
ce285c2 You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
d39ad0c You cannot change what you are, only what you do. self-determination change life 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 live-now letting-go change motivational success life inspirational today attachment 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. character-defining character-quote growth-life stubbornness unpredictable learning inspirational-attitude life-and-living change inspiring inspirational growth random 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. live-now gratitude change motivational success life inspirational appreciation today Steve Maraboli
7a63f51 Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. perseverance change inspirational activism Ovid
86e9414 We are the music-makers courage dream dreams change music inspirational 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. change inspirational complacency 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 destiny change empowerment motivational success life inspirational mistakes 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. war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget 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 change motivational success life inspirational living-in-the-present grudges seize-the-day anger resentment poison soul Steve Maraboli
b7ea387 Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. perseverance risk learning inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational success optimism life inspirational keep-going keep-moving-forward failures learn failure 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 escape change inspirational William S. Burroughs
b59419b The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. action letting-go change life inspirational journey 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 courage depression poetry sadness change strength inspirational attitude weakness helplessness dragons fears transformation 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. universe thoughts change motivational success inspirational actions intent 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 empowerment motivational success life inspirational determination 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
af27166 Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational growth 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational comfort-zone 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 motivational life inspirational intent seize-the-day control worry Steve Maraboli
79fae87 Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again self-awareness change inspirational Rumi
90206e3 Change course, but don't give up. leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational never-give-up Roy T. Bennett
10ac14c Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. trying change inspirational self-confidence self-esteem 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. past inspiration change hope life inspirational 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. motivation change inspirational 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." perfection change wisdom fools Ray Bradbury
b40c8ca "Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!" change island marry growing-up L.M. Montgomery
e646ffd Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer. action change motivational life inspirational mission self-empowerment purpose Steve Maraboli
43681b3 A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow. change inspirational 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 just-around-the-corner stay-positive faith inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational keep-moving-forward 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 passion courage meaning work change creativity 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. responsibility change success happiness inspirational victim potential personal-responsibility power 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." violence silence social-justice change indifference good-people vitriol social-movements repentance generations 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 history destiny change motivational success life inspirational seize-the-day today Steve Maraboli
da3e6d7 Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. change motivational agreement-with-reality life inspirational mindset 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. relationship change life-lessons life love inspirational 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. freedom change holy hospitality other stranger space friend 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 strength intelligence 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 inspirational excitement 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 history opportunity destiny change empowerment motivational life inspirational 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. dreams sadness change luke-garroway clary-fray jace-wayland magnus-bane simon-lewis seelie-queen Cassandra Clare
69c6fd1 Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. change inspirational distance 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. start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone courage dream leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation dreams change inspiring motivational life inspirational comfort-zone achievement leader leaders 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. history change opposition self-assurance defiance Howard Zinn
ee7ba29 I change the world, the world changes me. world change inspirational gemma-doyle Libba Bray
1644dcd Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. action letting-go change motivational life inspirational spiritual-growth simplicity 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 the-singularity singularity Isaac Asimov
cec2b1c Everything is within your power change empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inspiring inspiring-quote positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power-of-the-subconscious-mind powerful-quotes powerful-words self-empowered self-healing self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quotes spiritual-quote strength strong-willed strong-women motivational spiritual inspirational strength-of-mind change-your-mind power-of-women strength-of-spirit change-life strong-will encouragement-quotes law-of-attraction change-quotes inspiring-quotes strong-woman power-of-will encouragement-and-attitude powerful-women motivational-quotes encouraging spiritual-wisdom inner-strength motivating subconscious personal-development uplifting encouragement self-empowerment change-the-world change-your-life self-help-quote self-improvement power-of-thoughts strong powerful power self-help 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. fear change love truth day behavior plans conversation waiting tension 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. tragedy perseverance humanity change life cataclysm revelation-of-self humility 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. loss individuality memories change mom-and-pop-stores retail modern-society transience neighborhoods new-york-city consumerism 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. death change 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. courage future change hope inequalities race justice Cornel West
f12d3ef Things change when you're not in danger anymore. change life danger 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 death-and-dying fear reality death change fear-of-unknown changes fear-of-death Isabel Allende
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 revision muggles J.K. Rowling
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. hatred marriage criticism loss relationships change heartbreak love change-for-worse emotional-turmoil hurtful i-miss-who-you-were missing-who-someone-was puppeteer heartless nothing strangers turmoil bullying scary failure flaws Gillian Flynn
bbeb61d Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life. change change-life Thomas Pynchon
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
7d03d0a You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended. relationships change nick-hornby 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 life moving-forward plans grace 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
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. mankind war poverty change pulitzer-prize war-reporting detachment journalism civilization David Baldacci
50f3789 ...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia change growing-up running-away E L Konigsburg
428ba8b Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. change fire dresden-files 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? good-and-evil fate time free-will choice change chain-of-events long-term circumstance intention cause-and-effect results opposites result chance crime 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 my don-t on Shel Silverstein
6b584f8 Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. jealousy nature character change transformation Arthur Conan Doyle
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 positive-thinking inner-voice enthusiasm inner-strength negative-thinking negativity revolution Joseph Campbell
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. politics inspiration change Rebecca Solnit
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
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? emotion identity change amnesia dissociated-state emotionals identity-alternation identity-switch lookalike personality-switch trigger triggered impostor identity-confusion dissociative split-personality identity-crisis unreal survivor unreality dream-like dissociation dreaming child mirror memory-loss incest sexual-abuse dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder trauma mental-health Alice Jamieson
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. influence change willpower inertia Thomas Hardy
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. spirit faith death change life belief soul alice walker
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. compassion change stewardship tolstoy indifference rationalization starvation conviction hunger conscience power guilt hell Randy Alcorn
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
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. politics change inspirational Rebecca Solnit
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
52e328f That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. words true change speaking feel power Nicholas Sparks
745b214 So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. change sanctification dissonance 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 life growth Richard Flanagan
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. travel learning change Jack Kerouac
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. evolution nature change life Charles Darwin
e989235 The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live. change blueprints growing-older aging Barbara Delinsky
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
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. grief loss change darkness Haruki Murakami
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. drinking change bar electronic-software the-public the-recession electronic-revolution bourbon new-age electronics the-future video-games the-internet recession tv alcohol the-past electronic-books americans changes technology sarcasm Gillian Flynn
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 love misperception wife dangerous 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. identity change life glbtq possibilities haircut drugs 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. gratitude change thanks Sarah Ban Breathnach
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. fear change lonliness Sharon Creech
9270129 God is immutable--He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant! faith change god love ministry target never constant christian 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. time history writing reality past change capture fade fled hold-on preserve write remember flower Robin Hobb
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. youth change Michael J. Sullivan
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. youth poetry change growth self Wisława Szymborska
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. murder death change hope murderer decision zombies dead Richard Matheson
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." individuality change savannah georgia fashions separateness prosperity society John Berendt
21a2c3e in these shitty plastic days ... loss change a-new-era a-new-world electronic-revolution the-good-days-are-gone new-age stuck-in-a-rut life-sucks plastic the-past the-world fake changes destruction human-nature technology Gillian Flynn
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? freedom change good-apples police-state dignity Cory Doctorow
74f3e14 Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities. joy faith change god hope love day priorities start christian Elizabeth George
bf3f574 Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. change philosophy substance-addiction drug-addiction non-12-step-program 12-steps alcohol-addiction passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse treatment alcoholism society recovery Chris Prentiss
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." words wrong trying relationship reason trust change who act apostle are attracted away bear beyond can chastity commandments considered continue did door do eternal glad go god-s intended is knows let likely mocked narrow near proberbs remeber scriptures single-date slower sounds stay tempted those very what-you whims whom would you-ll your guy and day you with old-fashioned principle keep may he her compromise bed first never avoid advice should circumstances place not to preserve important use hold result head help alone follow virginity house she culture wants solomon path girl paul moral son be someone will promise honor right failure him standards James C. Dobson
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 life desires purchases material-goods necessity materialism psychology Alain de Botton
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
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. seasons winter change love passionate trees fall colors fire running V.C. Andrews
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. persona comfort change defence dehumanisation abuse-survivor 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. upside-down christianity change life eternity Randy Alcorn
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. time man woman true men women change love truth discover elixir familiar potion sincere find know charm sincerity playboy knowledge delight minstrel Robin Hobb
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 risk fear change heart love truth realization see understand result realize outcome worry danger threaten soul 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! humour death change corpses normality undead usual zombies dead Richard Matheson
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
7b059af They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition. change recognition new-world Irvine Welsh
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." world joy change hope drea environmntal gol ice-cube vancouver cape-breton nova-scotia hippie journalist pollution improve friend peace drunk sad Rebecca McNutt
b769edb The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it. world future choice change Juliet Marillier
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
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