All Quotes By Tag: Change

“I can’t change the world, but I can always change my point of view.”

“Relationships are constantly changing. They have to be dealt with every day anew. They are not constant, unchanging entities. You have to pay attention. If things take a turn for the worse then it is painful but it’s a chance to see things differently, a chance to see more. So that is a helpful pain.”

“That’s the problem with relationships,” George was saying. “It’s a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It’s counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you’re holding on to something that doesn’t exist anymore?”

“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy … a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of ‘solving Amy’. When I’d hold up the bloody stumps, she’d sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”

“You wouldn’t believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”

“Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.”

“Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to change into who you are. It’s going to be okay.”

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”

“If your actions don’t excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you’re doing it wrong.”

“Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.”

“All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.”

“The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.”

“When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.”

“Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.”