Top 100 Nature Of Change Quotes
#1. I passed the morning that knew no grief and at night bowed to the darkness that breathes. While in passing may seem brief, there is no simplicity to the nature of change.
Dew Platt
#2. I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
Andy Goldsworthy
#3. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.
Kimberly Derting
#4. You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.
Thomas Huxley
#5. It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
David O. McKay
#7. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#8. The current climate change is an outer mirror of our inner consciousness. It is an outer mirror of our attitude to try to conquer nature, instead of being in harmony with nature, but in the end the part can never conquer the whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#9. Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.
Catherine Ponder
#10. We always say that nature cannot be change, but we forget that change is the name of nature
Hasnain Shakeel
#11. All living things must grow or they will die. Adaptation to change is a characteristic of all living systems. Thus, all living things must grow, adapt, evolve, or die. Evolution is nature's creative way of pushing living organisms to higher degrees of complexity. We adapt up, not compromise down.
Alvin Conway
#12. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.
Seneca.
#13. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#15. The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
Emma Goldman
#16. I wonder as to the value of consciousness," said Jack, "if it does not change the nature of a beast.
Roger Zelazny
#17. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
#18. It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
Pat Metheny
#19. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
#20. True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Jonathan Edwards
#22. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
#23. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.
Norman Fischer
#24. It is easy to change the landscape of mountains and rivers but it is difficult to change one's nature.
You-Sheng Li
#25. Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Pope John Paul II
#26. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#27. One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
J. E. H. MacDonald
#28. Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
Arie De Geus
#29. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
Yuval Noah Harari
#31. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
Sharon Salzberg
#32. Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to change its culture, but it can change, all the time. So why are Afghans giving so much value to it? The burqa is not natural. It's not human nature.
Malina Suliman
#33. It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#34. Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.
Nora Roberts
#35. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
Kate Bernheimer
#36. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.
Zooey Deschanel
#37. This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
Michael Pollan
#38. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
Jack Layton
#39. The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
Brenda Shoshanna
#40. To believe that there are difficult or unreachable things, doesn't change the nature of those things, only our position towards them
Daniel Marques
#41. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#43. Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Aberjhani
#44. Thrilled to be part of this new project Generation Nature and just encouraging kids to change the world.
Bindi Irwin
#45. Freedom is the process of allowing myself to acknowledge the nature of my soul and to embrace my humanity. It is when I acknowledge how much power I have to create, shape, and change my life.
Cynthia Belmer
#46. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Anasazi Foundation
#47. No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Christopher Dawson
#49. The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
Simon Mainwaring
#50. Things change, people change,
change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives.
Nicholas Sparks
#51. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.
Anthony Giddens
#52. What it is ... is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to ... that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry ...
Jay Salter
#53. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
Anwar Sadat
#54. Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.
Martin Scorsese
#55. Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism
Frank Knight
#56. Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.
Lebbeus Woods
#57. Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'
Gian-Carlo Rota
#58. I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.
Mohith Agadi
#59. In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.
Genevieve Behrend
#60. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#61. One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
Shawn Achor
#62. It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
Iyanla Vanzant
#63. Once it is accepted that nothing can change, that nothing can come out of nothing, and that nothing is ever lost, then nature must consist of infinitesimal blocks that can join and separate again.
Jostein Gaarder
#64. Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.
H.P. Lovecraft
#65. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.
Mary Lee Settle
#66. Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.
Avicenna
#67. The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
D.H. Lawrence
#68. Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.
Aldous Huxley
#69. Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp of nature
William Shakespeare
#70. I suppose Galileo felt that the discovery of the fact that the laws of nature are not unchanged under change of scale was as important as his laws of motion, because they are both put together in the tome on Two New Sciences.
Richard Feynman
#71. To create more happiness and success in your life, you must change your policy about the nature of life and officially choose to see it as a classroom not a test.
Kimberly Giles
#72. The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole
Sunday Adelaja
#73. The world of man in the world of nature, cannot be change without physical appearance leads to positive possess by the initial human nature and could be change by habits of man.
Syed Afroz Alam
#74. The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept I
Brian Herbert
#75. He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Zhuangzi
#76. People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
Hannah More
#77. It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F.H. Bradley
#78. We're allowed to go on living happy, healthy lives because tens of thousands of animals like this chimp sacrifice their lives. But all people do is kill and hate and do whatever they please. I guess they forgot that nature is what keeps us all alive.
M..
#79. Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
#80. We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our world at least for a little time.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. Variety in nature is natural. There are many different species of flowers even from the same family, yet we don't see any of the different flowers as wrong, flawed, in need of change, or disordered.
Claudia Svartefoss
#82. The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.
Aldous Huxley
#83. Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
Carlos Castaneda
#84. Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions.
Robert Berkow
#85. Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.
Eraldo Banovac
#86. I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and the moon and the wind and whether a storm is moving in on us - if we just are close enough to nature.
Dean Potter
#87. Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
Rene Dubos
#88. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
#89. One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
Robert Buettner
#90. Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.
John Dewey
#91. Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.
Kenneth Fisher
#92. When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.
Michael Crimmins
#93. Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.
Shoshana Zuboff
#94. How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth
P.C. Cast
#95. Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#96. Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward.
His Holiness Divas
#97. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#98. The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.
Richard C. Lewontin
#99. Nature is the mother of creativity in a blink of eye it changes its colour.
Kishore Bansal
#100. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.
Lynn C. Tolson
