Quotes on Changing My Life

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

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

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.