Change Quotes - Page 11

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.

Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.

He accepted new ideas as readily as new trends. Knowing those worth it would last and the lessers will pass.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

But... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.

The winning strategy is the one that successfully adapts to the changing circumstances of time, place, and person.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

It takes you to bring the hidden wonders into light. Decide to make it happen.

To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

We do not observe reality, we observe our REACTIONS to it.In other words:Reality is, in essence, neutral. YOU give it meaning.

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

If you compose your dreams into a music, then your dreams will become the music you will always love to sing.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.

Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement―not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more.

We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.

A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.

Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative. As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.

It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)

Do you hold fond memories in your heart which you would like to experience again? Have you made mistakes which you wish you could go back and correct? Has life turned out differently than you ever planned for or expected? The wonderful thing about Second Chances is that you get to take what was once created or has already happened and REDO it to make it better.

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?

Most things happen for a reason and it may take years to discover why, but this is almost always for the better.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

If you keep doing what you have always done, your life will never change. Change your routine.

Everything changes your life.

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

Change the value system of the people you are ministering to

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

Nothing is permanent but change.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

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.