Quotes on Change

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.