11,582 Quotes About Change

La verità è che non abbiamo bisogno soltanto di tranquillità. Ogni tanto dobbiamo essere turbati, tanto per cambiare.

Strength for change can never evolve without willpower

If the one I love remains unchanged and unchanging, I shall cease to love her. It is only because she changes and startles me into change and defies my inertia, and is herself staggered in her inertia by my changing, that I can continue to love her. If she stayed put, I might as well love the pepper-pot.

Every circumstance is an opportunity for a change.

I've never felt that I was making any of this up—not the name, Earthseed, not any of it. I mean, I've never felt that it was anything other than real: discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation. I wish I could believe it was all supernatural and that I'm getting messages from God. But then, I don't believe in that kind of God. All I do is observe and take notes, trying to put things down in ways that are as powerful, as simple, and as direct as I feel them. (p 78)

The point is not simply to change the narrative. (An infinite number of narratives are possible.) The point is to exchange the false narrative for Truth.

People want something different, but want to keep their lives the same. It doesn’t work that way. Get over it! Change and adventurously ride the waves of life... or stay the same and drown in stagnancy. It’s your choice.

You can never tell when someone is truly done changing.

We work and work to rise from the deep, congregate and take flight.