Quotes about Change

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.

You can ask the Holy Spirit to change your perceptions.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen. This gives us vision, which gives us conviction, which gives us power.

Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities. No matter who you are, no matter how young or old you are, in the present, all things are possible.

A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind of citizen—needs to arise now. And quickly. We the People, We the Problem For too many decades, Americans have been chronically distracted by less important things, not bothering to engage in serious self-examination.

We need a revolution of the heart.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as to powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.

That is why a new American revolution is a revolution of consciousness, and a new American politics is a politics of love.

the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

We can't change other people's thinking, but in fact we don't need to because all minds are joined.* All we have to do is change our own thinking, and as we do, the world will change with us.