30 Quotes On Embracing Change

Change is an inevitable part of life, often bringing with it both excitement and uncertainty. Embracing change can lead to personal growth, new opportunities, and a deeper understanding of the world around us. However, the transition is rarely easy, requiring courage, adaptability, and often a shift in mindset. In moments of doubt or hesitation, the wisdom of those who have navigated their own transformations can provide guidance and inspiration. In this collection, we present 30 thought-provoking quotes that capture the essence of embracing change, offering insights and encouragement to help you navigate your own journey with confidence and resilience.

1. “It's never the changes we want that change everything.” - Junot Diaz

2. “If onlyyou could have witnessed howmuch I have changed: sit alonein a disused theatre and feel whatI have felt, see how the world hastransformed me, like the metamorphosisof a caterpillar.” - Kiera Woodhull

3. “We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.” - Kiera Woodhull

4. “He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.” - Kate Morton

5. “You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.” - Steve Maraboli

6. “You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.” - Jim Butcher

7. “My father had died when I was young, before I learned that there was anything stronger than he was. I'd been operating without that kind of support for my whole life. Molly was only now realizing that, in some ways, she was on her own.I wondered if my daughter even knew that she had a father, if she knew that there was someone who wanted, desperately, to Show Up."You get yourself an apartment and your plumbing goes bad, he'll still be there," I said quietly. "Some guy breaks your heart, he'll come over with ice cream. A lot of people never have a dad willing to do that stuff. Most of the time, it matters a hell of a lot more.” - Jim Butcher

8. “This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.” - Daphne du Maurier

9. “Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.” - Cassandra Clare

10. “Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time.” - Toba Beta

11. “Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can be quickly forgotten. Other changes happen slowly, gradually, like a flower blooming in early spring, each day unfurling its petals another fraction of an inch towards the warm, nurturing sun. These changes are as inevitable as nature running its course; they’re meant to be.” - Suzi Davis

12. “Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.” - Judy Blume

13. “I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “Nothing had changed. Nothing.” - Maggie Stiefvater

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

16. “For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional person, and the world, viewed from the haven of Brookfield, seemed to him full of distasteful innovations; there was a fellow named Bernard Shaw who had the strangest and most reprehensible opinions; there was Ibsen, too, with his disturbing plays; and there was this new craze for bicycles which was being taken up by women equally with men. Chips did not hold with all this modern newness and freedom. He had a vague notion, if he ever formulated it, that nice women were weak, timid, and delicate, and that nice men treated them with a polite but rather distant chivalry.” - James Hilton

17. “Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.” - Gwen Ro

18. “Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?” - Denis Mackail

19. “Remarkable changes are sometimes prompted by little things.” - Jawe Campos

20. “Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.” - Emma Cameron

21. “We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes--or we search for change in all the wrong places.” - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

22. “It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.Lygiai taip gyvenime keičiasi ir mūsų širdis, ir tai skaudžiausia; tačiau patiriame tą skausmą tik skaitydami knygas, vaizduotėje; tikrovėje jos keitimasis, kaip ir kai kurių gamtos reiškinių vyksmas yra toks lėtas, kad nors ir galime konstatuoti kiekvieną atskirą būseną, paties keitimosi pajusti nepajėgiame.” - Marcel Proust Marselis Prustas

23. “Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.” - Harriet Lerner

24. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic

25. “When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth...” - Margaret Atwood

26. “And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know ceases to exist. A moment that transform us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next.” - Jan-Philipp Sendker

27. “Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.” - Keela Sanders

28. “Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.” - Bryant McGill

30. “The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.” - Stig Åvall Severinsen