Change is the constant rhythm of life, a force that shapes our journey and molds our experiences. It can be both exhilarating and daunting, pushing us to explore new horizons and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Whether it's personal growth, adapting to life's unpredictable twists, or embracing new opportunities, change requires courage and resilience. In this collection, we delve into 144 inspiring quotes that capture the essence of change, offering wisdom and motivation to help you navigate life's transformations with grace and determination. Let these words be a guiding light, reminding you that with every ending comes a new beginning.
1. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
2. “No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. ” - Emma Goldman
3. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” - Libba Bray
4. “Let him who would move the world first move himself.” - Socrates
5. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” - Leo Buscaglia
6. “It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.” - James Gordon
7. “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” - John Steinbeck
8. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
9. “The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.” - Christopher Moore
10. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.” - Patricia Briggs
11. “Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.” - Jennifer Donnelly
12. “She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.” - Junot Diaz
13. “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ” - Niccolo Machiavelli
14. “Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” - Barbara Kingsolver
15. “Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.” - Cassandra Clare
16. “Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.” - Deepak Chopra
17. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” - Wayne W. Dyer
18. “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.” - Isaac Asimov
19. “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
20. “But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.” - Michael Pollan
21. “Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.” - Toba Beta
22. “Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world.” - M.F.K. Fisher
23. “Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.” - Kevin Brockmeier
24. “That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.” - Malorie Blackman
25. “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
26. “People can cry much easier than they can change.” - James Baldwin
27. “You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD
28. “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.” - Natalie Wood
29. “People don't resist change. They resist being changed.” - Peter Senge
30. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” - Coco Chanel
31. “It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.” - Steve Lopez
32. “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ” - Markus Zusak
33. “You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” - Steve Maraboli
34. “Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.” - Steve Maraboli
35. “Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” - Steve Maraboli
36. “You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!” - Steve Maraboli
37. “It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!” - Steve Maraboli
38. “Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.” - Steve Maraboli
39. “IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.” - Stafford Beer
40. “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.” - Lisa Lutz
41. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” - Jon Krakauer
42. “It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.” - Roby James
43. “All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.” - Tess Callahan
44. “A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.” - Henry Wallace
45. “من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟” - أحمد خيري العمري
46. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.” - Elizabeth Edwards
47. “But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But change needn't happen all at once. It can be small gestures.""Moments. Do you understand?" He's looking at me differently now, though I cannot say how. I only know I need to look away...We pass by the pools, where the mud larks sift. And for only a few seconds, I let the magic loose again."Oi! By all the saints!" a boy cries from the river."Gone off the dock?" an old woman calls. The mud larks break into cackles."'S not a rock!" he shouts. He races out of the fog, cradling something in his palm. Curiosity gets the better of the others. They crowd about trying to see. In his palm is a smattering of rubies. "We're rich mates! It's a hot bath and a full belly for every one of us!"Kartik eyes me suspiciously. "That was a strange stroke of good fortune.""Yes it was.""I don't suppose that was your doing.""I'm not sure I don't know what you mean," I say.And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” - Libba Bray
48. “God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.” - Tess Gerritsen
49. “There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.” - Jodi Picoult
50. “If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” - Anita Roddick
51. “It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.” - Margaret Mahy
52. “Edgar, there's a difference between missing him and wanting nothing to change," she said. "They aren't the same things at all. And we can't do anything about either one. Things always change. Things would be changing right now if your father were alive, Edgar. That's just life. You can fight it or you accept it. The only difference is, if you accept it, you can get to do other things. If you fight it, you're stuck in the same spot forever. Does that make sense?"But aren't some changes worth fighting?"You know that's true."So how do you know which is which?"I don't know a way to tell for sure," she said. "You ask, 'Why am I really fighting this?' If the answer is 'Because I'm scared of what things will be like,' then, most times, you're fighting for the wrong reason."And if that's not the answer?"Then you dig in your heels and you fight and fight and fight. But you have to be absolutely sure you can handle a different kind of change, because in the end, things will change anyway, just not that way. In fact, if you get into a fight like that, it pretty much guarantees things are going to change.” - David Wroblewski
53. “A change is as good as a rest.” - Stephen King
54. “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
55. “To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. This kind of critical and democratic sensibility flies in the face of any policing of borders and boundaries of "blackness", "maleness", "femaleness", or "whiteness".” - Cornel West
56. “Sometimes, war can make a change.Sometimes, change can ignite a war.” - Toba Beta
57. “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
58. “Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy.” - Steve Maraboli
59. “You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.” - Christine Feehan
60. “At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.” - Dianne Sylvan
61. “What has been is no more. Change has come.” - Dean Koontz
62. “Hypocrite shouts about the change,but never let risk coming on his way.” - Toba Beta
63. “The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.” - Santosh Kalwar
64. “You’ll never change the world just by complaining.” - Tadahiko Nagao
65. “You jeopardize all if move slowly on a fast lane.” - Toba Beta
66. “Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.” - Toba Beta
67. “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.” - Malcolm X
68. “It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.” - John Wyndham
69. “Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro!” - Julio Cortazar
70. “This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But events on the same scale, or nearly so, no longer seem to have that power; moneyed interests may have become too entrenched, elites too self-seeking, institutions too feeble, and the public too polarized and passive for the country to be shocked into fundamental change.” - George Packer
71. “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” - Steve Maraboli
72. “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
73. “I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.” - Margaret Laurence
74. “If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.” - James P. Lewis
75. “But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.” - Deb Caletti
76. “So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.” - Deb Caletti
77. “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.” - David Allen
78. “The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.” - Timothy Lane
79. “As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of” - Nina Hagen
80. “Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.” - Steve Maraboli
81. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” - John Green
82. “Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.” - Charles Dickens
83. “If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.” - Matt L. Rawlins
84. “Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.” - M. Ageyev
85. “What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even now during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?” - Walpola Rahula
86. “If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity.” - T.S. Eliot
87. “Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.” - Cherie Colyer
88. “I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.” - Erica Goros
89. “Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.” - Haruki Murakami
90. “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
91. “On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.For unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world. My body requires no attention. It's not hungry. It's neither warm or cold. It's resigned to being left undisturbed. Why have I troubled to bring it here? I might better have left it back at Long Island or St. Louis, while the weightless element that has lived within it flashes through the skies and views the planet. This essential consciousness needs no body for its travels. It needs no plane, no engine, no instruments, only the release from flesh which circumstances I've gone through make possible.Then what am I – the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.” - Charles A. Lindbergh
92. “God is Change.Earthseed: The Books of the LivingLauren Oya Olamina” - Octavia E. Butler
93. “As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.” - C. JoyBell C.
94. “When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.” - Rebecca McKinsey
95. “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
96. “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.” - C.S. Lewis
97. “All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.” - Tim Keller
98. “I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you” - Elizabeth Eulberg
99. “Change? Start by keeping a small promise.” - Jill Telford
100. “I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.” - Neil Gaiman
101. “Ukitaka kuleta mabadiliko katika dunia huna budi kubadilika wewe kwanza. Ukibadilika ukawa mwema katika jamii yako umeleta mabadiliko katika dunia.” - Enock Maregesi
102. “When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world” - Gossy Ukanwoke
103. “It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?” - Neal Shusterman
104. “Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.” - Henry Miller
105. “When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made.” - Kellie Elmore
106. “We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” - Evan Meekins
107. “Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” - Steven Redhead
108. “Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference.” - Seong pill kon
109. “I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me.” - C. JoyBell C.
110. “Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.” - Randy Alcorn
111. “Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.” - C.M. Stunich
112. “You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.” - Alison Goodman
113. “When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.” - Moazzam Shaikh
114. “Change is inevitable. Evolution, however, is optional.” - Tony Robbins
115. “He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn't be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine because Nathan was here and had helped me to realize that I was still Ramsey, no matter how much things had changed.” - Markelle Grabo
116. “Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!” - Eliezer Yudkowsky
117. “Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.” - Julia Green
118. “Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.” - Aberjhani
119. “Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.” - Barbara Samuel
120. “Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.” - Thomas Pynchon
121. “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
122. “Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.” - Feroz Bham
123. “If you're nasty, I won't fight.If you're rough, well that's just you.If you're mean, that's alright too.Whatever you are is all okay.I don't like you anyway.” - Shel Silverstein
124. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic
125. “War is the remedy for peace.” - Silvia Hartmann
126. “You but winnowed out those who have made their pride a funeral shroud." Jaren met Rain's eyes. "Our world has changed, Feyreisen. I have watched great Fey cities die, seen our forests fade back into desert, and listened to my shei'tani weep for the children her womb will not bear. It seems to me when the ways of the past lead only to death, then change is the only hope for life.” - C.L. Wilson
127. “No ordinary effort stops the wheel.In sleep it spins without resistance.Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.” - Stephen Demone
128. “It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch.” - Haruki Murakami
129. “I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, and openlike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the songwhere it fallsdown over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;I wantedto hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalivefor a little while.” - Mary Oliver
130. “Kill a fly in the past and it may drastically change your future.” - Ryan Higa
131. “There is never only one, of anyone” - Margaret Atwood
132. “The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.” - Darnell Lamont Walker
133. “A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!” - Evinda Lepins
134. “I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.” - Tayari Jones
135. “Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative. As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal.” - Deepak Chopra
136. “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
137. “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
138. “If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.” - Steve Maraboli
139. “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
140. “Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.” - George Alexiou
141. “In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day....just as it did when I was a kid. I like that!” - M.A. Bookout
142. “This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.” - Emil Cioran
143. “Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” - Sarah Addison Allen
144. “Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!” - Rossana Condoleo
