Quotes on Change

The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

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

All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.