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

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.

The world you once knew is no more for you.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there’s no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

The only permanent thing in this world is change.

When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God’s transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial,...

No matter, they weren’t going anywhere. Never again. Two skeletons buried beneath a dead city. No more fitting a barrow for a warrior of the Apocalypse and a Malazan soldier. That seemed just, poetic even. He would not complain, and when he stood at this sergeant’s side at Hood’s Gate, he would be proud for...

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don’t take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because...

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped...

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

You have to face the very thing you fear.–tdf

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

It doesn’t matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.

Don’t ignore pain; appreciate its message: You need to change now!

What I didn’t know then was that you can’t make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.

Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men’s wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend’s life away for just a few coins. Isn’t it interesting that they were God’s chosen in the bible? —Saul, Judas & King David

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn’t going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

The lesson will always repeat itself, unless you see yourself as the problem–not others.

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

Time never changes, people do and they blame the time..!

Think of the mind as a river: the faster it flows, the better it keeps up with the present and responds to change. The faster it flows, also the more it refreshes itself and the greater its energy. Obsessional thoughts, past experiences (whether traumas orsuccesses), and preconceived notions are like boulders or mud in this...

Nothing lasts. Everything changes. But the changes are the same. Winter will always turn to spring.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Life is beautiful, when you make it beautiful

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

If we can’t alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

here are moments in life when everything changes. Sometimes these moments come out of nowhere, ambushing you. Sometimes they approach from a distance and arrive so slowly and expectedly that change is nothing to be surprised about.