11,582 Quotes About Change

But surely something had changed between them! Surely she wouldn't treat him, now, the way she had then, not after she'd spoken the words aloud: You were always there for me, always, but I never appreciated it, I always took you for granted.

The right way to do any social work is to work until you're not needed anymore.

fighting the enemy is futile when you inhabit a system that has the endless generation of enemies built into it. That is a recipe for endless war.

Looking for someone to hear you and your desired message of change? Do not open with insults, attacks and attitude pointed at the people that might be able to help make that change.

لم تغيِّر فيّ الحرب كثيرًا. لكنّني في الحرب أحببتُها أكثر، وصدّقتُها أكثر، وتظاهرتُ بانّها لم تغيِّر فيّ شيئًا على الإطلاق

ما أزال بمثل صمتي وإخلاصي، لكنّي لا أريد للحياة أن تعود بهذه الرؤى الجديدة، وعليّ أن أنتظر أكثر من مرّة، لما سوف يكون

That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect.

There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise.

If you want change, don’t waste time debating with those happy with the status quo. Instead, use your energy to create a GRAND movement that will cause the most rigid in authority to Act!