Change Quotes

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Idowu Koyenikan
“A relationship built on lies and trickery will not last; only truthfulness can uphold a relationship”
idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

Stephen Chbosky
“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Joe Abercrombie
“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Aaron Lauritsen
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Hubert Selby Jr.
“There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ”
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

Steve Maraboli
“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Tony Kushner
“Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.

God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.

Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.

Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.

Harper: That's how people change.”
Tony Kushner, Angels in America

Leigh Bardugo
“They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.”
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“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

Gregory Dickow
“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
Tony Robbins

Lotchie Burton
“Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

Nic Stone
“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you. When it comes down to it, the only question that matters is this: If nothing in the world ever changes, what type of man are you gonna be?”
Nic Stone, Dear Martin

John Steinbeck
“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, Sweet Thursday

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

Ovid
“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses

Archimedes
“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes

Jack Thorne
“SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.”
Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

Steve Maraboli
“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Lisa Kaniut Cobb
“Ano snorted in a very unladylike and elkish way.”
Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

Anatole France
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
Anatole France

Aldous Huxley
“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
Aldous Huxley

Roberto Bolaño
“Every hundred feet the world changes”
Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Leo Tolstoy
“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of one man that he is kind or wise, and of another that he is wicked or stupid. Yet we are always classifying mankind in this way. And it is wrong. Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; here it is broad, there still, or clear, or cold, or muddy or warm. It is the same with men. Every man bears within him the germs of every human quality, and now manifests one, now another, and frequently is quite unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

Rohinton Mistry
“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Rebecca Harlem
“Fiona grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, “Oh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I can’t stop myself when you’re around me. I’m losing control of myself. Rick, please tell them to stop, otherwise I don’t know what I will do.” Saying this, Fiona placed her lips on Rick’s lips. Now Rick was no longer in a position to speak so that he could ask the DJ to change the song. He only needed to signal the DJ to do that. But after tasting the moisture on Fiona’s lips, which was like dewdrops on rose petals, he realized that this endeavour would have required a lot of courage, which he most certainly lacked at the time.”
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

Steve Maraboli
“Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Rebecca Harlem
“The trees, in both Earth and Heaven, exist in the same form.”
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

Franz Kafka
“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis