Change - Quotes
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
I don`t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
I can`t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
All things that live, endure for the same span;
The century-old tree, and the one-day beetle,
Grow conscious, joy and love, and pass away
When they have reached their own appointed aims.
Time does not move. `Tis only we who change.
A hundred years are but one brief day.
It is not enough just to change one thing. When you change that, you also change thousands of other things as well by sheer necessity.
Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn`t stop for anybody.
When you have a thought, it is coupled with a physical change in your mind that is specific to that thought, and it has an instant gravitational ripple effect throughout the entire universe.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.