Change Quotes

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
Andre gide - work and struggle and never accept an evil that...
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
Lewis Thomas
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
Peter Medawa
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Jacques Maritain
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatche
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle, Politics
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
George Santayana
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
Chinese Prove
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Lucius Gary
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
All appears to change when we change.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.