127 Quotes About Change

Change is an inevitable part of life, constantly shaping and reshaping the world around us. Whether it's a new chapter beginning, a transformation within, or a shift in society, change challenges us, propels us forward, and offers new perspectives. In this collection, we've curated the top 127 quotes about change, each one offering insight, wisdom, and inspiration. These quotes, from various thought leaders, writers, and visionaries, remind us of the beauty and necessity of change, encouraging us to embrace it with open hearts and minds. Dive in and let these powerful words guide you through your journey of transformation.

1. “Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.” - Bryce Courtenay

2. “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” - Rick Warren

3. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy

4. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller

5. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell

6. “The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again.” - Laura J. Burns

7. “Let him who would move the world first move himself.” - Socrates

8. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

9. “You can't change nature, son!""Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.” - Kitty Richards

10. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” - Ovid

11. “A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” - Richard Bach

12. “I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” - Judith Minty

13. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.” - Patricia Briggs

14. “Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.” - Logan Pearsall Smith

15. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.” - Georg Lichtenberg

16. “And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix

17. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” - Victor Hugo

18. “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.” - Lao Tzu

19. “If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization” - Philip Mauro

20. “He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.” - Zora Neale Hurston

21. “Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)” - kate dicamillo

22. “The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.” - Hilary Mantel

23. “People don't resist change. They resist being changed.” - Peter Senge

24. “Things change when you're not in danger anymore.” - Mitch Albom

25. “Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.” - Noel Streatfeild

27. “Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.” - Paulo Coelho

28. “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” - Susanna Kearsley

29. “All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.” - David Baldacci

30. “It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.” - Roby James

31. “من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟” - أحمد خيري العمري

32. “Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.” - Teresa De LA Parra

33. “Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different.” - Joshua Caleb

34. “Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.” - St. John of the Cross

35. “Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.” - Suzanne Finnamore

36. “...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.” - Lesley Kagen

37. “A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.” - Wendell Berry

38. “I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind. The mycelium stays in constant molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.” - Paul Stamets

39. “It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.” - Michael Stein

40. “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

41. “HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.” - William Nicholson

42. “Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.” - Ron Hall, Denver Moore

43. “In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.” - Cornel West

44. “What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.” - Leonard Sweet

45. “Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.” - Sherwood Smith

46. “Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.” - Wallace Stegner

47. “With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.” - Steve Maraboli

48. “the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .” - Simone Elkeles

49. “Are you Stupid?""Huh?""Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn't so bad...I was scared of change too. We're both scared. Lets be friend...okay?” - Peach-Pit

50. “At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.” - Dianne Sylvan

51. “History made when mindset changed.” - Toba Beta

52. “Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.” - Rodolfo Costa

53. “Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)” - Seymour Simon

54. “By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing world.But fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up the sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science fiction are willing to wait to read tomorrow's headlines. Once again, I think, there is a place, a wish, a need for the wonder and color of the world way out. The world beyond the stars. The world we won't live to see. That is why I wrote The Door Through Space.” - Marion Zimmer Bradley

55. “Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?” - Janet Skeslien Charles

56. “Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.” - Toba Beta

57. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” - Stephen R. Covey

58. “They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.” - Gouverneur Morris

59. “To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.” - Lorii Myers

60. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” - Helen Hollick

61. “You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.” - Shamarion Whitaker

62. “Everything changes your life.” - Melanie Tem

63. “If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.” - Hannah Harrington

64. “Do I dare Disturb the universe?” - T. S. Eliot

65. “One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even though it felt bitter in soul and pain in body.If you go through and pass it, then your soul and body will be stronger than previous level.When hope emerged, change will occur because of that, both in your soul and in your body.Fear of disapointment is a main enemy of good hope and great change within the human being.Only by facing and overcoming the fear of disapointment, man will become stronger and wiser. ~Salah satu faktor yang membuat manusia enggan untuk berharap adalah rasa takut akan kecewa.Jangan takut dengan kekecewaan! Semakin engkau takut menghadapinya, semakin kecil pengharapanmu.Hadapi dan lawanlah rasa kecewa, meskipun terasa pahit di jiwa dan terasa sakit di tubuh.Jika engkau mampu dan lulus, maka jiwa dan tubuhmu akan lebih kuat dari kondisi sebelumnya.Ketika harapan muncul, perubahan akan terjadi, baik dalam jiwa maupun dalam tubuh manusia.Rasa takut akan kecewa adalah musuh utama pengharapan yang baik dan perubahan yang agung dalam diri manusia.Hanya dengan menghadapi dan melalui rasa takut akan kecewa, seseorang dapat menjadi lebih kuat dan bijaksana.” - Toba Beta

66. “Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.” - Richard Flanagan

67. “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?” - Diane Duane

68. “Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it” - Arthur Golden

69. “Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.” - Ericka Huggins

70. “It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.” - Sebastian Faulks

71. “Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.” - M. Ageyev

72. “The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.” - A.S. King

73. “The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.” - Karen Blixen

74. “Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.” - Seth Godin

75. “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” - R.D. Laing

76. “100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough; that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness; act accordingly.” - Steve Maraboli

77. “Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it.” - Chris Fabry

78. “It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.” - Kim Edwards

79. “Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]” - Augustine of Hippo

80. “The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all intelligences do. If we do not act on higher motivations, then we can justify any action, no matter how horrible, as necessary for our survival. We are endlessly caught between the need for high moral absolutes—which will fail enough that any absolute can be demonstrated as false—and our tendency for individual judgments to degenerate into self-gratifying and unethical narcissism. Trying to force absolutes on others results in death and destruction, yet failing to act beyond one's self also leads to death and destruction, generally a lot sooner.” - L.E. Modesitt Jr

81. “You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.” - Ramona Ausubel

82. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi

83. “The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.” - Kimberly Cuttler

84. “That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?” - Alex Shakar

85. “To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth.” - John Soos

86. “Things changed. Then they changed again. Life was like that, and even death, I guess.” - Kami Garcia

87. “The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.” - Leo Tolstoy

88. “Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.” - James Belasco and Ralph Stayer Flight of the Buffalo 1994

89. “Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.” - C.M. Stunich

90. “The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.” - Jim Butcher

91. “The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next question. Are we cetain that we want change? The stories about EHMs, jackals, and suffering around the globe strike raw nerves, but now we demand absolute proof that our grievances justify the efforts change will demand. Third: Is there a unifying principle that will validate our efforts? We look to ascertain that we are not merely seeking to impose our moral, religious, or philosophical values on others but instead are intent on creating something of true and lasting universal benefit. And finally: What can we each do? You and I personally need to evaluate our talents and passions. What are our individual options and desires? How do they fit into the bigger picture?” - John Perkins

92. “Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.” - Tony Robbins

93. “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.” - Steve Maraboli

94. “You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.” - Alice Munro

95. “Personalities change when you least expect them” - g m

96. “Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events -- the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33” - Tove Jansson

97. “Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your words and deeds. That's how change happens.” - Tom Giaquinto

98. “Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.” - BJ Neblett

99. “They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don’t have to prove anything to me.” - Alina Klein

100. “The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now.” - John Kuypers

101. “Do the new, be the change.” - Neeraj Vohara

102. “When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.” - Walter M. Miller Jr.

103. “The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.” - Kevin Brockmeier

104. “Know that change is always challenged! When you decide that you want to make a change, it is the way of the universe to throw obstacles in our way. It is like we are being tested to see how serious we really are about what it is we have said! See it for what it is, don't get discouraged & always keep going!” - Gala Darling

105. “Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.” - Neil Gaiman

106. “...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?” - Robert Penn Warren

107. “Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.” - Rivera Sun

108. “Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.” - Leila Summers

109. “Pains are not to be relievedSorrows are not to fade awaya slight change in the visionmay bring a new experience” - Rixa White

110. “Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.” - Max Mckeown

111. “Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.” - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

112. “So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.” - Edith Wharton

113. “I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.” - Richard Paul Evans

114. “Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.” - Cassandra Clare

115. “For a patrimonial state to be stable over time, it is best ruled with consent, at least with consent from the largest minority, if not from the majority. Instinctive obedience must be the norm, otherwise too much effort needs to be put into suppressing disaffection for the regime's wider aims to be achievable. Consent is, however, not always easy to obtain. The collective view of most societies is rather conservative: in the main people prefer to see the social arrangements of their youth perpetuated into their old age; they prefer that things be done in the time-honoured way; they are suspicious of novelty and resistant to change. Thus when radical action must be taken, for whatever reason, a great burden falls on the ruler, the father-figure, who has to overcome this social inertia and persuade his subjects to follow his lead. In order that his will shall prevail, he needs to generate huge respect, preferably adulation, and if at all possible sheer awe among his people.” - Paul Kriwaczek

116. “As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are.Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, oldage and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.” - George Bernard Shaw

117. “He said my dream doesn't mean I am crazy, only that I should probably love myself a little better, like most people.” - Frank Lee

118. “The worst place anyone can start on is “wrong expectations” - Ngina Otiende

119. “I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.” - Lauren Oliver

120. “Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.” - Dave Guerrero

121. “To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?” - Anne Brontë

122. “For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--” - Lauren Oliver

123. “Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.” - Jane Kang

124. “Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.” - Raymond Carver

125. “Its better to change yourself instead of waiting for others to change for you.” - Parvez3786

126. “Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process.” - Steve Maraboli

127. “When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett