Quotes about Change

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.

Don't compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.