Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Right ain’t changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker

With the woman I loved, I wouldn’t change one second with her. No, I’d change all the seconds, and the thing I’d change is her.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it’s usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

We all share three things in common: We are breathing, we have a heart, and most importantly we have twenty four hours to live. With those things, we should not have an excuse as to...

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...

The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil – they’re all fluid and in transition. They don’t stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx...

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...

Do not waste time trying to change the world – just look for something that you are useful.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its bed by 1/100th of an inch each year (about the thickness of one...

You don’t turn a river by abruptly trying to get it to change direction. You don’t have that much power. No matter how strong you are. The river will just overwhelm you and obstinately carry...

Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does.

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

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

Love yourself like you would love your lover. Talk to yourself like you would talk to your lover, you deserve it. Love is an emotion running on a higher frequency that will unclutter the mind....

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If...

His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father’s death and even the...

soul gives each one of us to experience the higher change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots;...

The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes...

Nothing’s ever the same,” she said. Be it a second later or a hundred years. It’s always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn’t be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the...

Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

wrong expectations

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...

Change your state of being and your experience will follow.

People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it’s succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

Everyone cannot like you. Don’t waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak...

I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough.

What we call life…is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are...

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing.As you change your mind, you change your experience.

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s...

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...

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

The more things seemed to change, the more they stayed the same.

A change is as good as a rest.

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If...

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So...

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it’s not very nice.God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to...