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Change Quotes


"Because those four days in the mountains, they changed us. I gave you a piece of me. And you must have given me a piece of yourself, too, because you wouldn't have come here otherwise. You would have let go. I can't let go of you, Britt. And I don't want you to let go of me."


"There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better."



"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."



"Change only happens when the mind is willing to change."


"You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes."



"Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin."


"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."


"What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same?Doubt you'd be happy.So, why are you afraid of change?"


"Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best."


"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining."


"This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have."


"I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened."


"Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see."



"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."


"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."



"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"


"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."


"I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change."


"And then, one fairy night, May became June."


"Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come."


"Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them."


"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."


"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."


"But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision."


"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."


"Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on."


"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
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