That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.