Change and Transformation

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.

Of all the creatures of earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny. ... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go

Just can’t live that negative way . . . make way for the positive day!

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

What we think we become.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

A different language is a different vision of life.

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.