Change Quotes

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change,
nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
- Harold Wilson

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens.
The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,
move with it, and join the dance.
- Alan Watts

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change.
If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
- John A. Simone, Sr.

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any change, even a change for the better,
is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow

If you want to change the culture, you will have to
start by changing the organization.
- Mary Douglas

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
- Denis Waitley

If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

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