Quotes About Moments That Change You

#1. To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.

Mark Walter

#2. The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#3. I like moments of staleness and mildew, simply because it creates the lane for change.

Lyor Cohen

#4. Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments.

Stella Payton

#5. Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives ... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Edmundo Desnoes

#7. This moment - the one you're experiencing right now - is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.

Deepak Chopra

#8. Women's Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations That Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential.

Charlene M. Proctor

#9. If we knew everything would change we would have turned back but we didn't know. Thats how things happen. Especially sunny days hide dark moments in their pockets.

Karen Foxlee

#10. But then, at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all? We

John Banville

#11. In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Olivia Wilde

#12. Our choices in these next few moments could only change how we suffered.
Not if.
From everything I could see, that was already decided.

Lola Dodge

#13. The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

Laura Peyton Roberts

#14. Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth.

No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.

Paul Chadwick

#15. I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Magic Johnson

#16. Magical moments,defining incidents,people who have made a difference to us....some of these change the course of life.I enjoy reliving these off and on to remind myself to look out for empowering moments,magical happenings and people who influence meaningfully.Try it,it is heartening and powerful

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#17. A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments.

Nikki Rowe

#18. We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. There are moments in your life that can change you forever, and you Norah, you are my forever moment.

Angela Richardson

#20. Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#21. Flexibility is a learned mental skill. In today's dynamic world, your effectiveness as a professional depends
on your readiness to adjust quickly to the moments of need or opportunity, adversity, and change.

Jennifer Touma

#22. I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

Mamoru Hosoda

#23. You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.

Avijeet Das

#24. They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

Jodi Picoult

#25. At certain moments in your life you just know that everything after will change. You can ignore these moments by not acting on the new set of possibilities they enable, and your life will stay the same. But if you say yes to their reverberating potential, your life path alters permanently.

Adam Braun

#26. The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.

Terry Pratchett

#27. Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.

Ruth Reichl

#28. There are moments in life when everything changes. Sometimes these moments come out of nowhere, ambushing you. Sometimes they approach from a distance and arrive so slowly and expectedly that change is nothing to be surprised about.

Randi Zuckerberg

#29. Lives are made of strings of moments, and every once in a while, one of those moments is pivotal and defining. It changes everything, alters you so completely that when you look back, there's a clear before and after

Elizabeth Norris

#30. I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.

Christina Baker Kline

#31. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

Kandyse McClure

#32. Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

Jonathan Schell

#33. I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

Marianne Williamson

#34. The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.

Tahereh Mafi

#35. Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one's character.

Renee Ahdieh

#36. A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

Christopher K. Germer

#37. The reality is that moments of impact, which are your new reality, change without notice, and you have to be alert to their
underlying patterns of change.

Jennifer Touma

#38. Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

#39. It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them.

Russell Okung

#40. Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [ ... ] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#41. In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.

Gordon Brown

#42. Consider that in this very moment, your body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe - and you're doing it faster than you can change your clothes.

Deepak Chopra

#43. Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

Henri Nouwen

#44. I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

Anna White

#45. We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

Brandon Sanderson

#46. There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

Diana Gabaldon

#47. Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

Kristine Carlson

#48. I knew what he meant. It was hard to allow change into your life. We all struggled with it, but without change, the greatest moments would pass you by.

Liz Schulte

#49. You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.

Tosca Reno

#50. Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and a good thing, too.

David Rakoff

#51. Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Joan Wallach Scott

#52. There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Charlotte Rampling

#53. Self-Compassion A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. - CHRISTOPHER K. GERMER

Brene Brown

#54. Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet

Dwayne Johnson

#55. New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Hope Edelman

#56. How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.

M T Anderson

#57. You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.

Frederick Lenz

#58. The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

Eckhart Tolle

#59. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

David Vann

#60. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.

Katie McGarry

#61. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

Jonathan Tropper

#62. The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing.

C.M. Stunich

#63. 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

#64. People who overhaul their lives, there are no seminal moments or life-altering disasters. There are simply communities - sometimes of just one other person - who make change believable. One

Charles Duhigg

#65. Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record, for it suggests a clear history of cause and effect that can only betray our sense of what really happened.

Steven Millhauser

#66. It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

Tony Robbins

#68. You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Dana Spiotta

#69. There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events.

Kate Morton

#70. [ ... ]
"oh, dear," said Tessa.
"I have that effect on women," Will said. "I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me."
"I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly.
"Don't you dare -," He began with a breathless half laugh, [ ... ]

Cassandra Clare

#71. The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

Joseph Brodsky

#72. I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#73. Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Alex George

#74. A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#75. Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

Frederick Lenz

#76. Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#77. Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.

Howard Zinn

#78. I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

Floyd Patterson

#79. There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.

Simone St. James

#80. A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.

Elizabeth Gaskell