[S]tart at the turn of the last century, in 1901, with the celebration of Detroit’s bicentennial. That was the Detroit that came before–before all the racket that attended the making of the modern world, which...

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

If others feel they have to change you, that means they really don’t love you just the way you are. So why be with someone if you’re not the way he or she wants you...

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After…I knew there would be no turning...

Once you discovered that it is ok to love yourself there will be a world opening up to you. You will experience the magic of this world, you will see its beauty in spite of...

Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along – returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming...

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think– the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually… Remember that.

Change isn’t always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.

Things changed. Then they changed again. Life was like that, and even death, I guess.

People change for each other all the time. Take any love story, any great love story at all, and you’ll see that people have to be willing to change if they’re going to make things...

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Sure, everything is ending,” Jules said, “but not yet.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been...

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not...

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one.

When we follow our joy and excitement, being focused on what we love and appreciate, the change always unfolds with a great ease. Whenever we experience any tension in our transformations, it only indicates our...

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

You must embrace change before change erases you.

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

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

The tiniest thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, and can change who you are.

There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this...

Are you Stupid?””Huh?””Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn’t so bad…I was scared of change too. We’re both scared. Lets...

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Searching for nothing / Wondering if I’ll change / I’m trying everything / But everything still stays the same / I thought if I showed you I could fly / Wouldn’t need anyone by my...

…to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen…

Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy.

Change isn’t only about changing your circumstances, it’s about changing you.

I see wrong. Wrong in the way that our color of skin define whether or not we deserve recognition, wrong that my sister feels like she doesn’t fit in because every magazine claim you have...

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it’d really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

And change isn’t destruction. It’s just change.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can’t hear the screams. Change hurts

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

I think about how maybe it’s not things that change but people that change, and maybe that’s the change everyone is really talking about.

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to...

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective...

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Some of the world’s biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world’s most marginalized communities themselves.

I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.

Things change all the time – abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn’t do you that much good, apparently.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.