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.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our...

Growth is a part of change.

Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of...

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune,...

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be – But when he got well, a wolf once more was he

A change of heart changes everything.

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. … And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less...

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of...

We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?” She studied him, her eyes grave. “Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.