All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is...

Again he shook his head. The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the...

Don’t be vain. What you look like doesn’t matter. It’s the deed that matters.

If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

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

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules....

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn’t was beginning to wear on me.

Jag trur inte att jag helt och hållet är lesbisk… och mitt förhållande til männen er oförandrat.

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Every experience is seen through your mind’s eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

Changing yourself changes everything.

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable...

If there’s something you really want in life – especially if it’s something that scares you, or you think you don’t deserve – you have to go after it and do it now. Or in...

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Love all of you; who you were and the person you are becoming. You are the total package!

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet...

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has...

Death for [the Buddhist] is the shadow on the face of life, for the opposite of death is birth, not life; that which is born must die. Life has no opposite, for life goes on;...

It’s like the seasons. When they start, you’re one kind of person, and then when they end, you’re somebody different.

The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Real change will come when you focus on yourself – not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing...

I can’t change you and you can’t change me, but together we can work to change the world.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme,...

I’m seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can’t move. I can’t think, much less move. I can’t breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.

Redesign your image, make it brighter! You can’t wait for any other time, any other person or any other skill. Once you are convinced about your personal power, you can enter the race and change...

It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen’s...

Fear is the killer of fascinating change.

I got an abortion and learned how to make dehydrated tuna flakes and turkey jerky and took a refresher course on basic first aid and practiced using my water purifier in my kitchen sink. I...

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

status quo” on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped –...

When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace...

A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

Because everyone has a natural yearning for completion, we are able to change and recreate ourselves endlessly.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

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.