QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes a disillusionment and despair. ~Bell Hooks

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A change is as good as a rest. ~Stephen King

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The vast majorities of human beings dislikes and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted and always derided as fools and madmen. ~Aldous Huxley

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Instinct leads me to another flow. ~Queen Latifah

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers. ~H.G. Wells

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People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. ~Joe Strummer

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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. ~Kiran Desai

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People told her she hadn’t changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn’t. ~L.M. Montgomery

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Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home. ~Patti Davis

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Things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life. ~Siegfried Sassoon

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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all, Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so. ~Siegfried Sassoon

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For in spite itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then form its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities. ~John Dewey

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It’s brainless to assume that making changes to your window’s view will give a new perspective. ~Death Cab for Cutie

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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet. ~Margaret Mead

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Nobody can change who you are, except for you. ~Jean Kwok

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If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel. ~Toba Beta

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Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it. ~Steve Maraboli

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You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were there. Everything changes. ~Samuel R. Delany

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Change happens very slow and very sudden. ~Dorothy Bryant

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It isn’t the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it’s all a part of what I’m working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close. ~Nina LaCour

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Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. ~Bell Hooks

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I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die. ~Craig Ferguson

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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. ~Christina Rossetti

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The Augusteum warns me 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… Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change. ~A.C. Crispin

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Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ~Steve Maraboli

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