Top 100 Quotes About Change Happens
#1. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.
Andrew Evans
#2. It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
Margaret Mahy
#3. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#4. Each scene in your story, ask yourself, If I cut it out, would anything that happens afterward change?
Lisa Cron
#5. I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Cassandra Clare
#6. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
Ray Rhodes
#7. When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.
Gina Greenlee
#8. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...
Khaled Hosseini
#9. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now ...
Cassandra Clare
#10. A lot of things have changed and will change, I can only wish you the best as it happens.
Malice
Courtney Winnie
#11. Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change ... but change happens in a heartbeat!
Andy Andrews
#12. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Irin Carmon
#13. Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
Gloria Steinem
#14. When you choose to live a generous life, you start to change and so does the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation.
Brad Formsma
#15. When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.
Tom Morello
#16. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.
Donna Guillemette
#17. The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.
Thomas Ligotti
#19. Just remember sweetie, sometimes we can;t change what happens, but we can change how we let those things affect us.
C.C. Hunter
#20. 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
#21. Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
David Eddings
#22. You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.
Robert Griffin III
#23. Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#24. Of the three, the third trait - the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment - is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Barbara Sher
#26. As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
Tony Robbins
#27. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
Chris Prentiss
#28. 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
Deborah Moggach
#29. I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.
Herb Trimpe
#30. Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
Sarah Dessen
#31. Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
David Gemmell
#32. Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
Eknath Easwaran
#33. To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.
Eckhart Tolle
#34. Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.
Glenn Greenwald
#35. Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?
Shantideva
#36. The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.
J.C. Ryle
#37. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#38. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
Chimnese Davids
#39. Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.
Nancy Pearcey
#40. I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.
Billy Casper
#41. You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.
Joss Whedon
#42. Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
Timothy Keller
#43. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
Amy Winehouse
#44. It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.
Pico Iyer
#45. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
#46. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.
Irina Serban
#48. Change is superficial. Transformation is deep. It alters our perception of reality and therefore causes everything in our life to shift. Transformation is what happens when we live our life rather than analyze it.
Frank Natale
#49. Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming ... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.
Roy Spencer
#50. Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
Anthony De Mello
#51. Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must come when she will walk the road across the lake, and on that day, in the sad, heartless world on the other shore, you know it cannot last she is a slave.
John Speed
#52. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
Ed Greenwood
#53. He best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
John McGahern
#54. We're leading people to Jesus, not to ourselves or to our awesome church. Keeping the focus on Christ ensures that genuine life change happens and lasts.
Carey Nieuwhof
#55. I wonder why people wanted someone very badly, I wonder why someone comes in your life and life begins to change, every good happens to you, and you just want that person to never go from your life, remain there for you
Shaikh Ashraf
#57. If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.
Wayne Dyer
#58. No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.
Kurt Warner
#59. It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
Charles De Gaulle
#60. Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
Jose Antonio Vargas
#61. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
Hal Elrod
#62. Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.
Andy Andrews
#63. I want to change the world with you at my side, holding your hand. I love you, Sarah, and whatever happens, I promise there won't be a day that I don't love you with all that I am.
Emma Chase
#64. Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#65. You think of me as a ... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back ...
Stephenie Meyer
#66. The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself.
Marion Woodman
#67. I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.
Karen White
#68. But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.
David Kessler
#69. I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
George Benson
#70. Most people live under the misconception that it takes a long time to change. This is not true. It can take a long time to prepare to change or to decide to change or even to want to change. Change itself, however, happens in a heartbeat.
Andy Andrews
#71. Keith Richards on change - "It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.
Jessica Pallington West
#72. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#73. Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
Geneen Roth
#74. When God shows up and the unexplainable happens, don't attempt to explain it as something you did. Tell the story of how God has worked through you to change lives by His grace.
Dillon Burroughs
#75. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
Octavia E. Butler
#76. It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Chuck Klosterman
#77. When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'
Joan Smalls
#78. Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall
#79. It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.
Harry Callahan
#80. Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.
Nick Jonas
#81. We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#82. So when it happens, don't just say Damn and forget it. Stop a minute and think it through. Somebody's going to change the face of the earth and it could be you.
'It Was Nothing
Really!', 1969
Theodore Sturgeon
#83. Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.
Debbie Ford
#84. The way a film can change over the generations ... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.
Lilly Wachowski
#85. Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.
Robin S. Sharma
#86. There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes
Will Donner
#87. You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it's vital that a change happens now.
Mos Def
#88. But some things never change. No matter what else happens in the universe - the fall of communism, the destruction of the ozone, the death of punk rock, whatever - you can at least put your faith in one thing: If a man is pretty, available, and breathing, Tommy will stick his dick in him.
Bart Yates
#89. You have both feet in both worlds at the same time, at least for now. An understanding of this may or may not change what happens to you in this world, but it will definitely change how you see, react to, and handle things, especially if you keep in mind the new knowledge you have of where you are.
Van Harden
#90. Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.
William H. Calvin
#91. A college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change ... what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.
Leroy S Rouner
#92. That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
Catherynne M Valente
#93. Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#94. However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
Paulo Coelho
#95. Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
Cassandra Clare
#96. Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
Tony Robbins
#97. Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else's hands. I'm always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it.
Sarah Noffke
#98. Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.
Joan Didion
#99. When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.
JJ Ramberg
#100. Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time.
Katie Kacvinsky
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