To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with...

Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the...

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming...

You’ll never change the world just by complaining.

Sometimes the smallest things can change our lives. . . and sometimes it’s the people in them.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn’t he? We hear Joy’s getting better….LEWIS: That’s not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the...

Slowly, but steadily, my feelings did start to change- feelings about myself as a woman and feelings about what sexuality really is and what it really isn’t. I -like most everyone who identified as gay...

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life.

He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being...

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as life which you should never forget to live and enjoy.

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.

Nothing won’t change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

But some memories are more important than others,’ she says. ‘Because some memories belong to more than just one other person…Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so...

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

We can position ourselves to receive God’s promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

Each and every individual is magnetic ; one way attracts, the other way is just opposite !

Change isn’t always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

But sometimes everything needs to change. And once it does, you realize God knew what He was doing all along. You realize that nothing is beyond Him.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That’s the only way a person can be changed.”By looking into yourself,” Zia...

How he could be a good user of LSD,” I asked, “And know about the spiritual dimension – all that sort of thing – and still be a crook? I don’t understand.””Then it’s time you...

Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

True metamorphosis doesn’t come with flowcharts

Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.

Werewolf change was never pleasant. That was one of the reasons pack members still referred to it as a curse, despite the fact that, in the modern age of enlightenment and free will, clavigers chose...

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

It’s a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don’t want...

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful...

Don’t cry over the shots you’ve missed; weep over the ones you’ve not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!

If you don’t see the images on a screen because people block your view, it is easier to adjust your sitting position than to call for an adjustment of the screen! You need to change...

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their...

Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.

Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.