Quotes About Changing Yourself To Fit In

#1. It's crap when people say you shouldn't try to change someone. The whole nature of a relationship is compromise, and compromise is change. It can be scary as hell changing what you know to fit with someone else, so I think you're entitled to drag your feet a bit.

L.A. Fiore

#2. My feeling is, personally, I want to die first ... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

Bill Cosby

#3. Changing your location doesn't necessarily mean losing your problems. They'll show up wherever you are, changing to fit the situation. But until you break them down and deal with it, there is nowhere far enough for you to run away from them.

K.K. Hendin

#4. A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#5. When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

Jennie Finch

#6. Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

Merrit Malloy

#7. Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Cornel West

#8. Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Frank Herbert

#9. He was a tiny piece in a gigantic puzzle. But instead of having one fixed shape, his shape kept changing. And so - of course - he couldn't fit anywhere. As he tried to sort out where he belonged, he was also given a set amount of time to gather the scattered pages of the timpani section of a score.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Don't judge yourself by others' standards ... have your own. And don't get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

Berry Gordy

#12. Sometimes I'm in a mood like a Maths problem such as "If you have 4 pencils and 7 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple, because aliens don't wear hats".

Anonymous

#13. Now isn't the time to change yourself to fit into the world,"Clancey said his voice raw with whatever thoughts were storming beneath his skin. "You should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

Billy Graham

#15. People who made their dreams come true didn't simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Daily more and more people question their way of life and ponder their connections with Spirit."
From The Keeper Of The Diary

Judith Diana Winston

#17. In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

Candis Cayne

#18. The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do.

James MacDonald

#19. It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

Billy Sheehan

#20. If it's one thing that I've learned this year it is to recognize and treasure the people who love you for who you are. Changing yourself to fit into someone else's life is never a good idea. People should love you for who you are, not who they want you to be. I

Blair Holden

#21. I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

Marlon James

#22. All of the questions that had been open when my head had hit the pillow were still pending. But in the intervening hours, my brain had been changing to fit the new shape of my world. I guess that's why we can't do anything else when we're sleeping: it's when we work hardest.

Neal Stephenson

#23. Truth is not something that is relative to one situation and then changes to fit another situation. Truth is constant, never changing.

Gwen Burton

#24. Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.
-Deuce, (183)

Ann Aguirre

#25. The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

Kim Dotcom

#26. I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

Dorothy Koomson

#27. Without its changing shape or dimensions all of a lifetime's memories fit miraculously within it, perhaps revealing a mystery ... Memory was not something that overflowed or was shoehorned into the shape of an object; it was something that was distilled, transformed, with each new experience.

Carlos Fuentes

#28. In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. Nothing great can be achieved without great love.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

Hermann Bondi

#31. We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Gloria Steinem