Quotes on Trying To Change

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.