Quotes Tagged "change"

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.