11,582 Quotes About Change

Schimbarea autentică se produce în momentul în care ieșim din zona de confort, în care ne lăsăm expuși, vulnerabili în fața incertitudinilor.

[W]e are the ones to blame for enabling and even nourishing the toxic workplaces. In continuing to cooperate with a profoundly unhealthy and exploitative employment system, we become at once the dagger and the wound. Wounds never heal so long as they continue to cooperate with daggers. In a sense, the cure is in the disease itself. Our silence is the disease. Our serious commitment for change and for exposing power abuses and bullies is the cure.

You would think this was common sense, but apparently not: quit doing things you do not want others to do. You will never bring about desired change when your example screams contrarily.

The most effective, lasting, compassionate form of teaching is through example. If you want to teach a child to write, write passionately. If you want to teach a child to dance, dance with abandon. If you want to teach a child to care, extend a hand of service and compassion. If you want a child to listen, listen to him intently. If you want to change the world, then be that change. Your example is more influential than you can imagine.

Revolutions that really effect lasting change happen thoughtfully in peacetime.

Change is as sure or as questionable as your resolve.

Something has changed in the character of the younger generation in a way I do not fully understand, and certain aspects of this change are undeniably disturbing.

Why have the trees changed?" I said, stammering. "*You* have changed," Hyacinth replied. He leaned close to me to study my face. "Ah, so you've grown fond of this place. You feared it once, and now you ache for it to return. You always want what you cannot have, Fraulein.

Change, although uncomfortable and oftentimes difficult, is a necessary part of any individual's life.