Quotes about Change

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

All creativity is based on quantum leaps and uncertainty.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

We are part of a feedback loop that links our conscious acts to the conscious response of the field. In keeping with Heisenberg's implication, the universe presents the face that the observer is looking for, and when she looks for a different face, the universe changes its mask.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

What makes it all possible is raising your awareness. What you aren't aware of you can't change.

All this time he'd thought it was her feelings for Stephen that kept Meridith at arm's length. But Stephen was gone, and still she held back. He'd seen the look in her eyes. She'd been putty in his hands when he'd touched her. And then a wall had come up, shutting him out. What gave? And equally as baffling, how had Meridith, in two and a half months, gone from adversary to keeper of his heart?