Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: reality power change creation commitment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All revolutionary changes are unthinkable until they happen — and then they are understood to be inevitable. —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: change revolution inevitiability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. —Mark Morford More about this quote Tags: war humanity beauty religion change world art temptation generosity magic resistance environment fatalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. —Charan Singh More about this quote Tags: patience time change grass milk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing. —Stewart Edward White More about this quote Tags: life progress change growth fruit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. —Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You More about this quote Tags: now presence change loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were. —Jennifer Donnelly in A Northern Light More about this quote Tags: feeling change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: change bureaucracy status quo inertia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you plodded through life with nothing changing from one month to the next no matter how much you yearned for a revolution to erupt beneath your feet. And sometimes your whole world imploded and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds. —Laura Kaye in Hard as It Gets More about this quote Tags: life change revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. —Peter Borden More about this quote Tags: perspective change science novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen. —Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go More about this quote Tags: action change anticipation forcefulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I thought it would all fall into place. I've changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them. —Mhairi McFarlane in You Had Me At Hello More about this quote Tags: life change thought inaction decisions serendipity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: action change effort greatness waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice. —Jennifer Elisabeth More about this quote Tags: safety change faith trust starting over Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email