“Small actions can lead to big changes.”

“Changes begins in you.”

“If you want a different life, you must live differently.”

“You can either watch your life change or you can make your life change.”

“Don’t wait for someone to come along and change your life. Only you have the ability to change yourself.”

“Change doesn’t require leaving your life behind and starting anew. You aren’t required to quit your job, move across the world, sell all your belongings, or start a new extravagant hobby. You can but you don’t have to. Change can be as simple as appreciating the joyful tune of a singing bird, the delicate shape of a soaring snowflake, or the pleasant hope of a sprouting sapling. You can make change as simple or complex as you please.”

“Shouldn’t we be trying to change the things that are making us anxious instead of trying to learn how to cope?”

“All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn’t. Because I didn’t change it.”

“Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you.”

“You are your biggest obstacle, but you are also the change that you seek.”

“Positive change happens when darkness is exposed to light”

“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

“The greatest futility! says the congregator, “The greatest futility! Everything is futile!” What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.”

“As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.”

“When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.”