Change Heart Quotes

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time ... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart. ~ Bede Griffiths

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual. ~ Henry Williamson

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them. ~ Leon Bridges

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

If you could go back and change just one thing about your life, would you? and if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? or break the heart of another? would you choose an entirely different path? or would you change just one thing? just one moment. one moment that you always wanted back. ~ Lucas Scott

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change. ~ Amber Valletta

The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice. ~ Mustafa Akyol

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart. ~ Keith Miller

I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You've no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts. ~ Kiersten White

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change! ~ Andy Stanley

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart ~ Gautama Buddha

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that. ~ Jordin Sparks

A change of heart changes everything. ~ Todd Stocker

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. ~ Anna Brownell Jameson

All powerful and lasting change, whether in your personal life or your business, comes from the heart, not the mind. ~ Tonya Sheridan

You can change a body, but you can't change a soul. The heart wants what it wants. ~ Chris Colfer

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift. ~ Mary Lambert

May the Lord give us a new spirit and new heart ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. ~ Brittany Bowe

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. ~ Freda Adler

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is. ~ Simon Sinek

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. ~ Malcolm Fraser

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. ~ W. H. Auden

I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart. ~ Tristan MacManus

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind. ~ Taylor Swift

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ~ Jasper Johns

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union. ~ Yiannis Stournaras

Before attempting to change God's heart, first try changing your own. ~ Danny L Deaubé

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

May the Lord grant you a tender kind heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change. ~ John De Ruiter

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change. ~ Richard J. Foster

We need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them. ~ Rafe Martin

Truth is, people will never recognize what has changed within you, what makes you tick, what sets your heart and soul on fire, or what causes a rage within your bloodstream, unless they yearn to understand your soul. ~ Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time. ~ John Hagee

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. ~ Euripides

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live. ~ Malala Yousafzai

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up. ~ Kirk Cameron

Only love can touch the heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I knew," he continued, "you would do me good in some way, at some time; - I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not" - (again he stopped) - "did not" (he proceeded hastily) "strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver, goodnight! ~ Charlotte Bronte

Mom says,'What are you going to do when it's time to go to college?' I choose not to think about that yet. That is years away. For now, I just watn things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
~pg 16; Hattie on change ~ Ann M. Martin

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

Questions I've found helpful: What is one good thing I've learned from this? What was a downside to this situation that I can be thankful is no longer my burden to carry? What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time? What do I need to do to boost my courage to pursue future opportunities? What is one positive change I could make in my attitude about the future? What are some lingering negative feelings about this situation that I need to pray through and shake off to be better prepared to move forward? What is one thing God has been asking me to do today to make tomorrow easier? ~ Lysa TerKeurst

Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she know?
"Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out.
Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said. ~ Frank Beddor

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm. ~ John Muir

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is. ~ Maurice Sendak

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected. ~ Kelly Clarkson

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened. ~ Albert Camus

At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street. ~ Brandon Stanton

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ~ Elizabeth Ashley

The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart. ~ Scott Stabile

But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart. ~ Sana Krasikov

You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman. ~ Wu Ming-Yi

I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains. ~ Russell Brand

Confessional orthodoxy coupled with a view of a heavenly Father whose love is conditioned on his Son's suffering, and further conditioned by our repentance, leads inevitably to a restriction in the preaching of the gospel. Why? Because it leads to a restriction in the heart of the preacher that matches the restriction he sees in the heart of God! ~ Sinclair B. Ferguson

There are many of us here. A whole street. That's what it's called--Chernobylskaya. These people worked at the station their whole lives. A lot of them still go there to work on a provisional basis, that's how they work there now, no one lives there anymore. They have bad diseases, they're invalids, but they don't leave their jobs, they're scared to even think of the reactor closing down. Who needs them now anywhere else? Often they die. In an instant. They just drop--someone will be walking, he falls down, goes to sleep, never wakes up. He was carrying flowers for his nurse and his heart stopped. They die, but no one's really asked us. No one's asked what we've been through. What we saw. No one wants to hear about death. About what scares them.

But I was telling you about love. About my love...

-- Lyudmila, Ignatenko,
wife of deceased fireman, Vasily Ignatenko ~ Svetlana Alexievich

I look into his eyes and jump ... off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment ... is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul. ~ Kathryn Perez

This was it. Kiyomi realized it now. This was what her heart had reacted to. Her heart thrilled to mitochondria.
But why? ~ Hideaki Sena

My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released. ~ Demelza Carlton

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it ~ Masaru Emoto

The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, the courts, and the media -- for justice. ~ Helen Morales

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder. ~ Patrick Ness

Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge. ~ Noam Chomsky

If you are striving to be equal to your destiny and worthy of the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart, then you should be regularly reaching new horizons. ~ John O'Donohue

I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue ... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that ... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening. ~ Lee Hsien Loong

There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways ... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world. ~ Tom Wells

I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go with me tonight, then maybe I could still change things. It's dumb, I know. It's not like Levana cares if I, you know, might have actual feelings for someone. ~ Marissa Meyer

Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left. ~ Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. ~ Charlotte Gray

There is a – let us say – a machine. It evolved itself (I am severely scientific) out of a chaos of scraps of iron and behold! – it knits. I am horrified at the horrible work and stand appalled. I feel it ought to embroider – but it goes on knitting. You come and say: "this is all right; it's only a question of the right kind of oil. Let us use this – for instance – celestial oil and the machine shall embroider a most beautiful design in purple and gold". Will it? Alas no. You cannot by any special lubrication make embroidery with a knitting machine. And the most withering thought is that the infamous thing has made itself; made itself without thought, without conscience, without foresight, without eyes, without heart. It is a tragic accident – and it has happened. You can't interfere with it. The last drop of bitterness is in the suspicion that you can't even smash it. In virtue of that truth one and immortal which lurks in the force that made it spring into existence it is what it is – and it is indestructible!
It knits us in and it knits us out. It has knitted time space, pain, death, corruption, despair and all the illusions – and nothing matters. I'll admit however that to look at the remorseless process is sometimes amusing. ~ Joseph Conrad

It was always once springtime in my heart. ~ Oscar Wilde

Bodhichitta is our heart - our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings. ~ Pema Chodron

I think a fantasy is what the heart whispers to silence a busy mind. (Caleb) ~ Tamara Lush

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live. ~ Joe Montana

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom. ~ Dan Millman

I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a generous helping of peas. Using my knife as a ruler and my fork as a prod, I marshaled the peas so that they formed meticulous rows and columns across my plate: rank upon rank of little green spheres, spaced with a precision that would have delighted the heart of the most exacting Swiss watchmaker. Then, beginning at the bottom left, I speared the first pea with my fork and ate it. ~ Alan Bradley

The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in your heart. He already knows the decisions you've made. He's just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was. ~ Victoria Osteen

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. ~ Margaret Thatcher