The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery).

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it...

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably...

Our world’s future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it...

The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll...

how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

I hate change more than almost anything.

Not wanting to change, constantly fighting change, and being afraid of change; these are all extremely stressful mental dispositions, because let’s face it – change happens! Learn to embrace change, flow with change and even...

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.

I’ve put out a lot of little roots these two years,” Anne told the moon, “and when I’m pulled up they’re going to hurt a great deal. But it’s best to go, I think, and,...

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of...

How is it possible to write one’s autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the status quo, no matter how slight, can always be considered by someone as too radical, so that the only thoroughgoing escape from the charge of impracticality is never to...

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to...

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You’ve no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts.

It’s not enough that you move through the world – you must change it to suit your expectations.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

Everyone is so locked into the current way of doing things, they never see the larger picture or other, more responsible and efficient possibilities. A REAL economy is always wanting to limit consumption/manufacturing as much...

The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday.

Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to...

I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form enjoys the prerogative of being able to tell me ‘You must’. It is...

Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.

Always try coercing others proves one doesn’t want to change himself.(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice – there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not...

The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day.

A piece of information can change a person. I’d hate to change the way I’m supposed to live the future.

It’s only after the change is fully formed that you can see what’s happened.

Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t,’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

But we can never change enough to impress God. And here’s the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my...

Change and Mistakes are positive and negative terminals of cell called “Transformation”.

If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.

You’ve been given the innate power to shape your life…but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can’t just want it; you...

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.

So many years of being lonely and discounted, no one ever truly seeing me, the person that I really am. The Gabriella I so desperately wanted to be. Yet somehow he broke through the walls...

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence