I’m no gumshoe, but I think I have gum on my shoe. Either that or I’m stuck in place because I’m afraid to take the first step in a new direction.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can’t make a difference.

The customer is always right…even when they’re wrong.

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn’t the system, but who was running it....

People don’t change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.

We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not...

I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you

At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.

Everything flows and nothing stays.

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of...

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I’d been through, I’d changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty...

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

Throughout history, there have been people who mattered more. Some of them, like Ulysses S. Grant and Winston Churchill and Jonas Salk, changed the course of history in grand strokes. Others, like Reuben Styrlund and...

Change your thoughts, and you change your world

Implore yourself to continue to Action Past Your Devil’s Advocate.

All that you touch, you change. All that you change,changes you.

There are more nobles out now that the sun is setting. They walk hand in hand, arm in arm to cafes, bread shops, clothing stores, and flower booths. It’s a lovely sight to me. A...

It’s hard to see yourself changing until you’re so far from the person you used to be that it’s hard to remember ever being them at all.

..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don’t have enough natural resources,...

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on...

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?

While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.

I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

It’s never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is...

Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions.

Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning...

If you truly believe in something that is totally rejected by others, then you’ve just made a difference.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

Soundless echoes – no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away.

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying...

If all the Christians- I mean all of ’em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we’d shut the city down.We’d shut down hunger.We’d shut down loneliness.We’d shut down the notion that...

Things will start changing for the better when you begin trusting yourself.

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

We can’t undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see...

Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process.

T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency “to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having...

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

If peace is to come to earth through change in man’s environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. — Philip Mauro in “The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization