11,582 Quotes About Change

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.

You can change a chair the way you want -- cut it, polish it, paint it; it won't resist. But you can't force change on living beings. More you criticise or try to change them, more rigid and defensive they become. Not just mind, even your body won't change if you or someone else keeps criticising it.

It made a change in himself, and we must not change ourselves much. We can stand only so many—so few—changes. To know that there were people who he thought were his friends, his good friends, but who were his enemies—that was going to make a change, he knew. When was the last time there had been a change in himself? He thought and thought, rejecting items that were not change but only removal or adornment.

It's the nature of mind that it always wants to reach somewhere. Total acceptance also includes accepting this nature of mind. When total acceptance happens, soul awakens and mind calms down on its own.

Black folks can't change cause white folks won't change.

Alice had midnight hair brushed into an oddly flattering Fifties flip––parted down the middle and haunting eyes that would terrorize a raven, finished with a black turtleneck.

But I do strongly believe that sometimes God is more interested in seeing a change in us, than a change in our situation. So rather than turning our circumstances around, He may prolong it to see if we've got what it takes to change our ways; to grow, to improve. and to mature into the person He's destined you to become.

First of all, I've always maintained that we can never truly change people. Even in the Islamic belief, hidayah or guidance comes only from God. We do our part to educate, to inform, to encourage, but the end result is surrendered entirely for God to decide.

Tension motivates the imperative to change.