Quotes about Change

Dynamism is a function of change.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.