Change Life Quotes

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events. ~ Alex George

Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen. ~ Joan Didion

The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. ~ Charles Dickens

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air. ~ Daniel H. Wilson

But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux. ~ Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else. ~ Lesley Choyce

The sea changes color, but the sea does not change. ~ Stevie Nicks

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change. ~ Ben Carson

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun. ~ Sarah Morgan

Time changes things; rather, a person's action over the passage of time changes things. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

So little, once it has changed, changes back. ~ Truman Capote

Everything changed ... even the things we didn't want to. ~ Ashley Jeffery

Truth is not negative. Truth helps us see things from a fresh perspective. Truth educates, creates awareness, and is the first step to initiating any real and lasting change. ~ Tonya Sheridan

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting. ~ Robin Hobb

The power of God's grace is a transformed life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are a new creation by God's grace. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently. ~ Tom Perrotta

Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people. ~ Aline Alzime

We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of 'situations'
defined in 1958 as moments of life 'concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a play of events'
but that also necessary entailed the supersession of philosophy, the realization of art, the abolition of politics, and the fall of the 'spectacle-commodity economy. ~ Tom McDonough

Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us. ~ Peter White

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. ~ Alvin Toffler

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ~ Robert Frost

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism. ~ Sigmund Freud

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent. ~ Mark Patterson

And then I couldn't see (Banawa) any more because the plane tilted up and we flew straight into a fierce light.

This must be what it's like to be reborn.

First, there you are in the darkness of your mother's womb, not knowing anything and not wanting anything to change.

And then suddenly you are out, naked and starving hungry in a shining new world. ~ Candy Gourlay

Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness. ~ Erik Valeur

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world. ~ Ernst Haeckel

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. ~ Max Muller

Life favours those who constantly change. ~ Sunday Adelaja

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change. ~ Max Lucado

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change. ~ Shia Labeouf

We think the world is steady, rolling through space beneath our feet, day and night, rain and sunlight. And then, one day, you just fall off the planet and drift away, into outer space, and everything you thought was true all the laws that bound your life before, all the rules and norms that kept things in place, that kept you in place, they're gone. And nothing makes sense anymore. Gravity is gone. Love is gone. ~ Nickolas Butler

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? ~ Joe Abercrombie

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Like a needle jabbed into your arm, reality stings you, hurting you more than your skin and flesh. You realize that you're nobody. The electricity's gone out, the darkness is your sudden enemy...you have to protect yourself from the dark. Otherwise the world goes out, along with the artificial lights from the power plant. The night once again disintegrates into atoms, changes from cultivated to wild, fitting itself afterward into its original black hues, its cat skin. ~ Georgi Tenev

We come to enjoy ourselves in it, come what may. And in doing so we add meaning of our own, proving ourselves to be life's creative participants. We discern and live, thereby enhance life. We change life by making life coherent, and we are in the meantime changed by living the coherence we continually create. ~ Kuang-Ming Wu

You just don't notice the time line of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. ~ Sloane Crosley

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. ~ Katharine Hepburn

She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened - it didn't change anything. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

You should breathe deeply and chant, 'Money will easily and effortlessly flow into my life' as often as you can every day. Things will start to change after a month. If you believe you will be financially secure, then you are opening yourself up to change. ~ Louise L. Hay

A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... Unless you fail to make the turn. ~ Helen Keller

You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced. ~ Marty Rubin

there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work. ~ Scott Stabile

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life? ~ Francis Chan

Jesus Christ saves the lost sheep. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is messy. No matter how hard we try to create order, something happens to cause the structure we created to falter. Maybe that's the only way for us to learn. If everything stayed neat and orderly, then we would never be forced to grow and change. We need something unexpected to help us make sense of where we are and to guide us to where we need to go. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The grace of God transforms the good soul into great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. ~ George Eliot

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change ~ Gena Showalter

The wind of change is clashing with the wind of the past.. The past.. ~ Noha Alaa El-Din

'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change. ~ Harrison Ford

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever. ~ Sara Sheridan

Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring. ~ Richard Paul Evans

The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways
that's just the nature of unforeseen ways. ~ Will Schwalbe

I cannot change the people around me, but I can change what kind of people are around me. ~ Kambiz Shabankareh

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change. ~ Dan Marino

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow. ~ Amit Ray

I realize now that the reason we often feel so bad about change is because of all those beautiful things that happen in our lives. I mean, I can't remember ever feeling sad about many things other than a great memory. I believe in contentment and love and laughter. I believe when we fear for our content it is then, most of all, we feel sadness. ~ Dito Montiel

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering. ~ Somaly Mam

I matter. My feelings deserve attention. My desires deserve fulfillment. My dreams count. I matter, not because I'm selfish, but because if I don't value my body, mind, and spirit, the world will destroy me. And when I do value myself, I am indestructible. ~ Toni Sorenson

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too. ~ Patrick Ness

The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change. ~ Johann Lamont

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. ~ William J. Clinton

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different. ~ Deb Caletti

Change is a must, change is unavoidable, change is the centre of every move we make. ~ Euginia Herlihy

I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change. ~ Rory Stewart

As we stand there, it hits me how quickly everything changes - how life is like peering into a kaleidoscope, and just as you're looking at a gorgeous pattern you think you'd maybe even like to keep around forever, the colors morph into something completely different, and there's no getting back to that first pattern. No matter how much you'd like to see it again. ~ Holly Schindler

Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say. ~ Bryant McGill

The Layers

I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes. ~ Stanley Kunitz

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. ~ Ayn Rand

A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Things can change. Life is all a learning process. ~ Mike Tyson

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible. ~ Lindy West

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? ~ Jennifer E. Smith

I was once in darkness, but now, I see a bright light on my path. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change ~ Nikhil Kushwaha

People think about life in terms of changes, not levels. They can be changes from the status quo or changes from what was expected, but whatever form they take, it is changes that make us happy or miserable. ~ Richard H. Thaler

If you trust yourself much, you can change your life easily just like you can change the places of the feathers with a simple blow! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change. ~ Allison McAtee

This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place. ~ Kelly Cutrone

The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable. ~ Jonathan Berent

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. ~ Jeremy Renner

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind. ~ Joe Abercrombie

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. ~ Robert Browning

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism
anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made. ~ Stephen R. Covey

We can never fully impact others to change if there is no evidence of change in our lives. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change. ~ Dick Wolf

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives. ~ Soledad O'Brien

Life does not work for people who don't like to change. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change. ~ Penelope Cruz

Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change. ~ Namie Amuro

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves. ~ Virginia Woolf

In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other (which is what we have been taught to do) which is to look for structure and to fear change, above all to fear change. Now I didn't fear change. ~ Anais Nin

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger