Quotes about Change

It's possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.

Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying "Repent!"? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all

It's at the end of ourselves that new futures open up.

There are always two risks. There's the risk of not trying something new, and there's the risk of not trying it. . . . Either way, there's risk. And sometimes stepping out and trying something new is actually the less risky thing to do.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

Door in the Dark: In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got in past my guard, And hit me a blow in the head so hard I had my native simile jarred. So people and things don't pair any more With what they used to pair with before.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

A Late Walk - A Tree beside the wall stands bare, But a leaf that lingered brown, Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought, comes softly rattling down. I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower to carry again to you.

Nature's first green is gold

This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen...