We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating yourself endlessly.
Music can not change the world, but it can unite us for a while.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
Everything stays in the power of heart and no people, no sky, not even our interests can ever change.
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
“Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled, That changing one, you change the other too;.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Habits change into character.
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
Things do not change; we change.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
People don’t change. Things do.