This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But...

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don’t work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.

Stay More’ is synonymous with ‘Status Quo’ in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain...

One of the great constants in life is change.

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn’t matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any...

On more than one occasion I heard how life apparently advances, moves on, sets sail or, at worst, apparently crawls slowly forward. My life, on the other hand, simply exploded like a firecracker in the...

Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart...

Which came first: the change-ready company or the change-ready employee?

We are always changing, always different, and yet strangely and recognizably always the same.

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also...

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead “still” lives, waiting.

I’d learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every...

We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don’t do them and see what happens.

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.She could be happier.

Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get–a cold sick feeling, deep down inside–when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but...

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.

He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn’t be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine...

Because human nature never changes.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

War is the remedy for peace.

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality; it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness...

I’d been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blamed it on the coming New Year, only four and a half months away, when the clocks...

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

When you find the church you’re supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor’s voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

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

We always have a chance to ask, a chance to know, and a chance to change. If these chances are not used properly or merely ignored,then you won’t have a second chance.

Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself!

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.

The word “seek” is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it – BE it!

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this...

Laugh hard, smile no matter what you’re going through, give everyone a second chance, and don’t ever forget rules were meant to be broken life is too short to be anything but happy!

It’s funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about What I Was or Who I’d Become or What Terrible Thing...

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.