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Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.Short People
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.Short Humor Mind
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.Short Mind
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Short World
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.Short Truth
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.Short
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.Short Attitude
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headingShort Effort
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolutionShort Spirituality
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.Short
Let him who would move the world first move himself.Short World
People can cry much easier than they can change.Short People
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.Short Action
You can't use an old map to explore a new world.Short World
The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example.Short
Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed.Short
Without unquenchable enthusiasm, nothing can be gainedShort
[Affirmation] I can change. I have the will to change. I will changeShort
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.Short
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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.Life Control
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.Life Peace Wisdom Acceptance
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.Life Analogy Simile
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.Life Man
When you resist change, you resist the fundamental process of life & invariably you'll invite all kinds of sufferingLife Suffering
When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.Life
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Life Short
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.Life
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.Life
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.Life Short Choice
If you resist change, you resist lifeLife Short
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could changeLife Short
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.Life
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.Life Wisdom
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.Life Action
Never judge others. You know well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.Life Experience Judgement Mind
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.Life Short
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You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.Inspirational Growth Limitation
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.Inspirational Responsibility
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Inspirational Science Wisdom
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.Inspirational World
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.Inspirational Personality
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.Inspirational Success Attitude
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Inspirational Life Philosophy World
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fineInspirational Truth Wisdom
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.Inspirational Life Relationship Mistake
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.Inspirational Life
If the atmosphere we live in makes us, we cannot call ourselves leaders. If we make the atmosphere we live in, only then can we call ourselves leadersInspirational
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It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.Courage Growth
Grief does not change you... It reveals you.Loss
Change, like healing, takes time.
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!Success Mistake Action
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.Success
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.Reality
What you are seeing now will be gone one day. Change is good if you don't let it hurt you. When it does hurt, the rebellion you feel is meant to show you that you should not have any desires.Desire Hurt
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.Freedom Love
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.Thinking World
You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.Time
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.Truth Ignorance
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Politics
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Education Short
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth.Truth Compassion
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...Hope Life
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.Hope Inspirational
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.Evil Mistake Character Men
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.Reality World Life lessons
Accept the children the way we accept trees-with gratitude, because they are a blessing-but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.Desire Love Children Acceptance
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.Mind Thought Opinion
The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.World
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.Death Life
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.Philosophy Compassion
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"Education Heart Truth Wisdom
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.Success
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.Expectation
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Humans
If your doctor told you that you are going to die tomorrow, that you can't live for more then 24 hours, you will see you will transform yourself so rapidly; minute to minute you will change. So don't wait for your doctor to tell you something horrible (change by yourself)Death Life Philosophy Truth
The beauty of the child is that he is flexible, that is all that is needed to happen to adults too, that is the most important aspectBeauty Children Mind
If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.Death Philosophy Wisdom
Education does not mean getting a certificate. It means enhancing yourself.Education Short
The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.
Refuse to be bound by karma; it is an old superstition of the ignorant to believe you cannot change your destiny.Belief Ignorance
'I can, I must, and I will' - that is the way to change yourself and achieve absolute victory.Positive Attitude
The nature of habit can be understood by this analogy: Clay can be molded into a vase, and while the clay is still soft it is easy to change the form of that vase again and again. But once it is fired in an oven, its shape becomes firmly setNature Habit Analogy
Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patternsHabit Mind Thought Body
One must always be careful of books... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.Book Words
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.Love Feeling
Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.Short
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.Women Difficulty
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.Kindness Compassion People
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
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.Love Humor
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.Heart
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.Enemy
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.Freedom Acceptance
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.Education Freedom Thought
Fashion changes, but style endures.
It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.Anger Sadness
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.Funny
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.Love
I never change, except in my affections.Short
Throughout history, people with new ideas, who think differently and try to change things, have always been called troublemakers.History Idea People
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.Heart Inspirational Life Success
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eightBook Man
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.Love Growth
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.Faith God
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.Forgiveness Relationship Growth Perception
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?Faith Life Belief
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.Hope
I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....Courage Life Fear Acceptance
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.Philosophy Action
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.Courage Individuality Opinion
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.Forgiveness
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.Beauty Emotions Reality
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.Love
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.Mind Meditation
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.Compassion Hurt Attitude
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.Politics Society
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.Life Love Personality
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.Short
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.Death Life Love
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Life Book Reading Man
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.Short Time Past
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.History Philosophy Future Past
Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.Short
Transformation means just this - that who you are is not determined by other people's opinions or other people's presence. You are like this - whether somebody is there or somebody is not there, this is the way you are - this is transformationLife Philosophy
if you do not communicate the way people know, if you do not behave and act the way people know right now, if you don't walk two steps with them you can never walk them in a different directionAcceptance
Resentment and anger can lead to a revolution. A revolution can sometimes lead to well-being, but it usually only replaces one tyrant with another set of tyrants.Anger
Anger is not the way to propel change. You can do it out of shear human longing to be better. Every human being is constantly longing to be little better than what he is right now. Just that longing is enough to transform a society and individual and the whole situationAnger Society
it's time.. If we are concerned about life it's time that we are one hundred percent straight, at least with ourselves. Otherwise, neither yourself nor your life situations will ever get fixed, simply complaining and going on. Life will be a lifelong complaint for a whole lot of people because they don't want to address it, they want to beat around it.Life Philosophy Truth Wisdom
You have made yourself in such a way that you are a result of an unconscious process, you are not a result of a conscious process. When you are a result of an unconscious process, you are bound to be a miserable accident. Yes. It's time every human being takes responsibility to at least change this muchBeing human Responsibility Consciousness
Whatever the hell you are right now, it's yours. Either you must have the courage to change it or you must learn to settle into it. You must either have the courage to change it or you must learn to settle into it, one of these things you must do. Simply endless complaint for the rest of your life is no goodCourage Life Responsibility
Your life & the experience of your life is entirely your making, if this one thing doesn't sink into you absolutely (you won't change), the moment you see it, you have the ability to changeLife Experience Understanding
we have to be alive to it every moment and as the context changes, what we do has to change. Morality and mortality are not very different.Funny Life Philosophy Wisdom
History is replete with many events where individual leaders because of their insight and their commitment, have changed the course of what happens on this planet. At the same time, there are also many disastrous events on the planet when leaders operated without the necessary insight and did things which caused enormous disasters on this planetHistory
You have entangled yourself in such a way, even if the most significant things happen you can't change the direction of your life, If the greatest things came your way, you cannot change the direction of your life. This is a slave's lifeFunny Life
If you do ordinary things with absolute involvement, you will become extra-ordinaryShort
Throw yourself into things you can change and accept the things you cannot change, or you will end up upset and not do what you canAcceptance Effort
If you do not learn to consciously change your rhythm, you are like a broken record, repeating the same things over and over again.Wisdom
Being on your toes is the best way to be.. means you have a life that is happening. You don't have a stagnant lifeLife
People resist change because they rather stick to the known devil than pursue the unknown angel. Familiarity breeds comfort and inertiaComfort People
When we say spirituality, we are talking about an existential change.Short Spirituality
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.Religion
Before we engineer the world, the most important engineering that needs to happen is that you engineer yourself the way you want yourself to be
Whatever has already happened can be a lesson for us. We cannot change it, but we can do something about what is happening now
You think that you can change the world, or that you have the capacity to move yourself only with anger. Why? Why can't you move with love? Why can't you move with compassion?Anger Love Question Compassion
We need to change the definition of "Real Men." It's not by hiding our emotions but by gaining mastery over them that we are empowered to look Life in the eye. This is what Yoga is - a tool that teaches you to play and yet remain unscathed by the game of LifeLife Emotions Men Yoga
Changing your interpretation of your past is often just as good as changing your pastPerspective
Reincarnation means merely a change of mortal dress. But your real self will never change. You must concentrate on your real self, not on the body, which is nothing but a garment.Body
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dyingDeath Liberation
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome changeDeath
If you feel that your character is not what you think it should be, remember that it was molded by none other than yourselfTruth Character
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.Short
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.Perspective People
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.People
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.Life Moment
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.Humor
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.Desire
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...Life Moment
It need not be blood and tears which move the wheels of history. It can be just human love, human compassion, human ingenuity, human intelligence can truly move the wheels of history. Now, the information technology and other things is a clear manifestation that human ingenuity can change the worldHistory Love Compassion Intelligence
A ball can change the world. It's not about the ball nor kicking nor the cup. It's sheer intensity of involvement. Knowing this in life is yoga.Yoga World
Elections in a democracy are a reminder that Ballot is a silent, yet the most potent tool to bring about change
What has to change in your life is not the content of your life. What needs to change is the context of your lifeLife
Every moment, something new should happen in your life. Something old should fall away. You must renounce something old and something new should happen to you.Life Experience
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intentionReality Society Consciousness
In this world of relativity, nothing is exactly the same as it was a moment ago. It is said that one cannot bathe twice in the same stream. Everything in the universe is a stream of relativity that is in perpetual fluxWorld Universe
We should learn to spiritualize service--to perform work that gives the best service to mankind. He who makes service rather than money his goal will see the entire plan of his life change. He will never be left out.Spirituality
Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
Man's consciousness, when constantly identified with material changes or mental disturbances, cannot mirror the immutable Divine, whose image is present within him as his true Self, or soul.Soul Mind Consciousness Man
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.Short Acceptance Effort
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this."Relationship
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Time
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - ChangesLife
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.Faith Difficulty
A changeable mind perceives a changeable creation, and is easily disturbed; the unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind, on the other hand, behold, behind the masks of change, the Eternal SpiritSoul Mind
How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to GodDeath God Soul Consciousness
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.Fear Past
At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.Mind
Be the change that you wish to see in the world 
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. 
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. 
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. 
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. 
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. 
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. 
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. 
To love those that love you is easy. To love those that do not love you is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love 
One must never give up hope of becoming better. A person is old only when he refuses to make the effort to change 
Let your example be the way to change others' lives. Reform yourself and you will reform thousands. 
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. 
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. 
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy 
The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example. 
Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed. 
Without unquenchable enthusiasm, nothing can be gained 
Since you alone are responsible for what goes on in your mind, only you can change your thoughts. ![[Affirmation] I can change. I have the will to change. I will …](/i/quotes-pictures/892-paramahansa-yogananda-affirmations-change.jpg)
[Affirmation] I can change. I have the will to change. I will change 
Comfort comes from the mind. Change your mental attitude and you will not feel discomfort. 
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. 
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. 
Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time. 
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. 
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. 
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. 
When you resist change, you resist the fundamental process of life & invariably you'll invite all kinds of suffering 
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. 
When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. 
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. 
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. 
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. 
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. 
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. 
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change 
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. 
Never judge others. You know well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life. 
You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations. 
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. 
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. 
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. 
You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes. 
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. 
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change. 
The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions. 
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. 
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. 
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. 
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday. 
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. 
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. 
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. 
We are the change we have been waiting for. 
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine 
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. 
Things do not change; we change. 
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. 
There ain't no journey what don't change you some. 
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. 
If the atmosphere we live in makes us, we cannot call ourselves leaders. If we make the atmosphere we live in, only then can we call ourselves leaders 
It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Grief does not change you... It reveals you.
Change, like healing, takes time.
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!
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
What you are seeing now will be gone one day. Change is good if you don't let it hurt you. When it does hurt, the rebellion you feel is meant to show you that you should not have any desires.
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Accept the children the way we accept trees-with gratitude, because they are a blessing-but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... Unless you fail to make the turn.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
If your doctor told you that you are going to die tomorrow, that you can't live for more then 24 hours, you will see you will transform yourself so rapidly; minute to minute you will change. So don't wait for your doctor to tell you something horrible (change by yourself)
The beauty of the child is that he is flexible, that is all that is needed to happen to adults too, that is the most important aspect
If you are not willing to be vulnerable, you are not willing to transform. Whatever does not transform is as good as dead.
The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.
Refuse to be bound by karma; it is an old superstition of the ignorant to believe you cannot change your destiny.
'I can, I must, and I will' - that is the way to change yourself and achieve absolute victory.
The nature of habit can be understood by this analogy: Clay can be molded into a vase, and while the clay is still soft it is easy to change the form of that vase again and again. But once it is fired in an oven, its shape becomes firmly set
Habits are simply thoughts grooved deeply into the brain. The needle of the mind plays those records of habits again and again. Even the chemistry of the body responds, as with addiction. Applying mind and will can change those patterns
One must always be careful of books... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
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.
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.
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!
The person you became with her is worth being.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
You've changed me forever. And I'll never forget you.
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
Once you want something, everything changes.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
I never change, except in my affections.
Throughout history, people with new ideas, who think differently and try to change things, have always been called troublemakers.
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.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.
I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
It's never the changes we want that change everything.
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.
Transformation means just this - that who you are is not determined by other people's opinions or other people's presence. You are like this - whether somebody is there or somebody is not there, this is the way you are - this is transformation
if you do not communicate the way people know, if you do not behave and act the way people know right now, if you don't walk two steps with them you can never walk them in a different direction
Resentment and anger can lead to a revolution. A revolution can sometimes lead to well-being, but it usually only replaces one tyrant with another set of tyrants.
Anger is not the way to propel change. You can do it out of shear human longing to be better. Every human being is constantly longing to be little better than what he is right now. Just that longing is enough to transform a society and individual and the whole situation
it's time.. If we are concerned about life it's time that we are one hundred percent straight, at least with ourselves. Otherwise, neither yourself nor your life situations will ever get fixed, simply complaining and going on. Life will be a lifelong complaint for a whole lot of people because they don't want to address it, they want to beat around it.
You have made yourself in such a way that you are a result of an unconscious process, you are not a result of a conscious process. When you are a result of an unconscious process, you are bound to be a miserable accident. Yes. It's time every human being takes responsibility to at least change this much
Whatever the hell you are right now, it's yours. Either you must have the courage to change it or you must learn to settle into it. You must either have the courage to change it or you must learn to settle into it, one of these things you must do. Simply endless complaint for the rest of your life is no good
Your life & the experience of your life is entirely your making, if this one thing doesn't sink into you absolutely (you won't change), the moment you see it, you have the ability to change
we have to be alive to it every moment and as the context changes, what we do has to change. Morality and mortality are not very different.
History is replete with many events where individual leaders because of their insight and their commitment, have changed the course of what happens on this planet. At the same time, there are also many disastrous events on the planet when leaders operated without the necessary insight and did things which caused enormous disasters on this planet
You have entangled yourself in such a way, even if the most significant things happen you can't change the direction of your life, If the greatest things came your way, you cannot change the direction of your life. This is a slave's life
If you do ordinary things with absolute involvement, you will become extra-ordinary
In marriages, there are divergent expectations. The woman expects the man to change. The man expects the woman to never change
Being human means having the possibility to consciously shape yourself.
Throw yourself into things you can change and accept the things you cannot change, or you will end up upset and not do what you can
If you do not learn to consciously change your rhythm, you are like a broken record, repeating the same things over and over again.
Being on your toes is the best way to be.. means you have a life that is happening. You don't have a stagnant life
People resist change because they rather stick to the known devil than pursue the unknown angel. Familiarity breeds comfort and inertia
When we say spirituality, we are talking about an existential change.
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.
Before we engineer the world, the most important engineering that needs to happen is that you engineer yourself the way you want yourself to be
Whatever has already happened can be a lesson for us. We cannot change it, but we can do something about what is happening now
You think that you can change the world, or that you have the capacity to move yourself only with anger. Why? Why can't you move with love? Why can't you move with compassion?
We need to change the definition of "Real Men." It's not by hiding our emotions but by gaining mastery over them that we are empowered to look Life in the eye. This is what Yoga is - a tool that teaches you to play and yet remain unscathed by the game of Life
Changing your interpretation of your past is often just as good as changing your past
Reincarnation means merely a change of mortal dress. But your real self will never change. You must concentrate on your real self, not on the body, which is nothing but a garment.
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change
If you feel that your character is not what you think it should be, remember that it was molded by none other than yourself
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
It need not be blood and tears which move the wheels of history. It can be just human love, human compassion, human ingenuity, human intelligence can truly move the wheels of history. Now, the information technology and other things is a clear manifestation that human ingenuity can change the world
A ball can change the world. It's not about the ball nor kicking nor the cup. It's sheer intensity of involvement. Knowing this in life is yoga.
Elections in a democracy are a reminder that Ballot is a silent, yet the most potent tool to bring about change
What has to change in your life is not the content of your life. What needs to change is the context of your life
Every moment, something new should happen in your life. Something old should fall away. You must renounce something old and something new should happen to you.
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention
In this world of relativity, nothing is exactly the same as it was a moment ago. It is said that one cannot bathe twice in the same stream. Everything in the universe is a stream of relativity that is in perpetual flux
We should learn to spiritualize service--to perform work that gives the best service to mankind. He who makes service rather than money his goal will see the entire plan of his life change. He will never be left out.
Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
Man's consciousness, when constantly identified with material changes or mental disturbances, cannot mirror the immutable Divine, whose image is present within him as his true Self, or soul.
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this."
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.
A changeable mind perceives a changeable creation, and is easily disturbed; the unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind, on the other hand, behold, behind the masks of change, the Eternal Spirit
How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to God
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.