I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself.

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.—Jim Rohn

Change we must; if a river can, so can we.

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can’t Give You Honesty.

It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she’s thinking about a safe room, something she’s only heard of but suddenly wants: water, oxygen, bulletproof door, dead bolts, a thousand books. Utterly quiet. Completely silent. No girls she barely knows in saggy leather pants, no girls in mesh strippers’ gloves...

To be always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

It seems the only way we can avoid being the victims of change is to reconcile with the inevitable. We must never stand on the rail tracks of positive change.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

I miss my old life

People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things...

When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

TeenagerMe—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...

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents loved me, and that is essential when you’re a kid; they always showed me how proud they were of my...

It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

But now that so much is changing, isn’t it time for us to change? Couldn’t we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of love? We have been spared all its trouble, and that is why it has slipped in among our distractions, as...

Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame… at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

Not once not twice but at least a dozen times i have advanced an idea to people who thought i was either dreaming , imagining the impossible or just in over my head. When the birth of a rare idea lives to see the light of day it is astounding . I have some ideas...

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it’s also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices....

A piece of information can change a person. I’d hate to change the way I’m supposed to live the future.

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...

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.

Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.

advice” in a spirit of love and helpfulness, but we can be much more helpful when we help them to find their own ways of changing things. It can be incredibly freeing to spend an entire day not looking to try to change the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of other human beings. If we approach...

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed falls upon another until it feels like the world is collapsing around me. But when I yield, when I surrender...

Yet, thousands of africans and young african youths have failed to acknowledge the significant of what madiba gave them. To me, he be called ” the pride in black skin and the freedom we are enjoying

Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice – there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special...

You must embrace change before change erases you.

One of the most important lessons I’ve recently learned? I have to move forward without that apology. Waiting on it has bound me to an anchor that is pulling me under. What would make the other person apologize for hurting me when they’re far too selfish to notice they have?

Change–savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Can’t say it often enough – change your hair, change your life.

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

She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death.

That I should just dive in and let my world fall apart and rebuild itself. That if I can embrace change, I can embrace death, and that is the secret to liberation.