Change Our Lives Quotes

#1. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

#2. The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

Bruce H. Lipton

#3. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Sheldon

#4. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

Brene Brown

#5. The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Prince William

#6. Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

#7. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Alice Waters

#8. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action ... we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest of our natural lives

Joan Ruddock

#10. With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

Yehuda Berg

#11. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

Daisaku Ikeda

#12. When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Elizabeth George

#13. It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

Jeffrey Archer

#14. A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra

#15. It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

Kate Bush

#16. Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the "god" of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts - and through us begin to change our world.

Billy Graham

#17. I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

Neil Burger

#18. Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.

Mary E. Pearson

#19. This election [2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

Marco Rubio

#20. There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

Eleanor Brown

#21. Sometimes the smallest things can change our lives. . . and sometimes it's the people in them.

Terri Haynes Roach

#22. We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Raymond Carver

#23. It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too.

Cherise Sinclair

#24. We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Serj Tankian

#25. Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

Nicholas Sparks

#26. It's age. It makes misers of us," he said dolefully. "Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse.

Peter Maughan

#27. We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

Pamela Ribon

#28. Impossible stories, stories with No Entry signs on them, change our lives, and our minds, as often as the authorized versions, the stories we are expected to trust, upon which we are asked, or told, to build our judgements, and our lives.

Salman Rushdie

#29. You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person" ... Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.

Joe J. Christensen

#30. You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall

#31. God's power is the key to any transformational change in our lives, including our health.

Rick Warren

#32. To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change.

Bell Hooks

#33. We live our lives afraid of change and if we were to just embrace it instead, it wouldn't seem like such a big deal when it hits us.

Nicole Williams

#34. I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Lamar S. Smith

#35. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Malala Yousafzai

#36. We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

Cate Blanchett

#37. Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.

Lyall Watson

#38. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Ann Voskamp

#39. He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election - and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.

Dean Koontz

#40. On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow.

Dorit Brauer

#41. It can be sad how time may change things in our lives, yet let us not forget we always maintain the power to choose whether or not to be happy about the changes it brings.

Mark W. Boyer

#42. People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that."
"If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

Nick Vujicic

#43. We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

#44. More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Donald McCaig

#45. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

#46. Our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Harvey MacKay

#47. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#48. I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Al Gore

#49. Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

Andy Andrews

#50. Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

John Eldredge

#51. My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

Barack Obama

#52. Gratitude is a choice which can change our lives for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#53. This desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives.

Steve Hagen

#54. We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently ... The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.

Billy Graham

#55. Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

Peter Jackson

#56. If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

Louise Hay

#57. We shape our lives around words, words whose meanings are always changing.

Marty Rubin

#58. Before any change for the better can take place, a level of understanding is always needed; because without understanding we tend to fall back on the automatic responses and reactions that we have built up over our lives.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#59. When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

Gates McFadden

#60. We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?

Matthew Kelly

#61. I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

Marge Piercy

#62. Our lives change when our habits change.

Matthew Kelly

#63. Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.

June Jordan

#64. Someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

Alice Miller

#65. The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

Marianne Williamson

#66. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

Hiro Mashima

#67. We don't have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

Arianna Huffington

#68. The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

Paula Gunn Allen

#69. To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

Richard J. Foster

#70. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#71. It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.

Priscilla Shirer

#72. Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

Michelle Obama

#73. If all of us carried a positive attitude, and we focused our efforts on striving for something positive in our own lives and in life all around us, everything would take a turn for the better. Yes, I really do believe that a positive mindset can change the world. Don't you?

Logan Seelye

#74. The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

Daniel Willey

#75. Maybe that's why I get frustrated sometimes, because there's no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn't change any of the things I've done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there's also no satisfaction in where I am.

Chris Dietzel

#76. We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#77. Times change, years speed by, but Christmas continues sacred. It is through giving, rather than getting, that the spirit of Christ enters our lives. God still speaks. He prompts. He guides. He blesses. He gives.

Thomas S. Monson

#78. Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#79. In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

Dillon Burroughs

#80. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Lolly Daskal

#81. Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Cassandra Clare

#82. When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.

Lawren Leo

#83. Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives

Sunday Adelaja

#84. Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

David McCullough

#85. People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

George Monbiot

#86. When we embrace our Intuition, be embrace a new way of living ... The intuitive process is an adventure. There are new discoveries around every corner, and we always have the power to change our lives.

Kim Chestney

#87. A good thing? Or a strong omen ... Only time would tell what these newfangled neutrons and fission reactions would give to our ever-changing world.In all probability,this new scientific birth would change all of our lives forever and perhaps end the brutal war we were now engaged in?

Will Leamon

#88. It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.

Dana Reinhardt

#89. Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear - and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

Sherry Turkle

#90. Becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

Stephen R. Covey

#91. We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

Stephen King

#92. The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn't recognize as griefs, because they came in what were supposed to be the best times of my life. No one whispered in my ear that the best times, the ones that change our lives, are woven with the thread of loss.

Anna White

#93. I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.

Victoria Osteen

#94. By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

Isha Judd

#95. If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

Stephen Covey

#96. If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

Audre Lorde

#97. One unfortunate circumstance can change our lives for the worst, and all it takes is an act of kindness to turn it around the other way.

Colleen Coble

#98. We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Mark Hyman

#99. Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#100. In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how we view intelligence and attention. We have to rethink it all in a more interactive, networked, and collaborative way.

Cathy Davidson