Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can’t change what you are comfortable with.

You have to direct change; if you don’t do so, change will direct you. Guess… the direction change will offer you is not a comfortable one. But the direction you can offer change will be...

Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.

No matter where you are, you are just one thought away from happiness. Forget everything; just think about happiness and everything will change.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can...

Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of...

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

Page 142: “When a spouse says to the alcoholic, “you need to go to AA,” that is obviously not true. The addict feels no need to do that at all, and isn’t. But when she...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

My interest in Sufism began when I was a college student. At the time, I was a rebellious young woman who liked to wrap several shawls of ‘-isms’ around her shoulders: I was a leftist,...

I’m putty in her hands. Out of her hands, I’m more like clay.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to theirunderlying patterns of change.

I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner...

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.

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the...

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.

Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul.Be the man for whom I will tame myself voluntarily..Be the man who can make me forget my...

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Part broken – part whole, you begin again. ( from ‘Why books seem shockproof against change.’ THE TIMES: BOOKS)

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

It’s not easy to change things. Things fight back.

Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different.

This division is not one by religious affiliation, rather it separates the extremists and the peace-loving people.Therefor I’m optimistic: now a humanistic Islam is getting shaken awake. Moderate Islam needs now to finally break cover...

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

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...

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you’ll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of...

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and...

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don’t know. Something new that holds opportunities.

People always say change takes time. It’s true, but really it’s people who change people, and then those people have to decide if they really want to stay the new people that they’re changed into.

It’s funny how things seem different, suddenly.

If you want to live the life you’ve always wanted, you’ll have to make the changes you’ve always needed.

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

All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time,...

Maybe you and I can’t do great things We may not change the world in one day But we still can change some things today… In our small way…

You can’t change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future.

The old resists the new one.’Change hurts’ is the reason.

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

The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet...

From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe’s _You Can’t Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.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.

I miss my old life

instinct leads me to another flow

I don’t feel like I can change the world. I don’t even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

Political leaders are reflection of our society.