925 private quotes tagged change

“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.” — Owen Feltham

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“Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'” — Marilyn Manson

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“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.” — John Ruskin

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“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.” — Denis Waitley

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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” — Bruce Barton

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“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

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“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.” — Sting

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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson

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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

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“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” — Shunryu Suzuki

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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” — Barbra Streisand

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“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” — Dean Acheson

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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” — Jack Layton

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“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Ignorance is always afraid of change.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.” — Kelly Lynch

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.” — Margaret Mead

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“If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.” — John A. Simone, Sr.

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“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.” — Gwen Stefani

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“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” — Susan Sontag

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