Sayings About Not Changing Who You Are

#1. Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it. - Author: Edward Norton

#2. I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time. - Author: Rick Mercer

#3. Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. - Author: Meyer Schapiro

#4. You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose. - Author: Orrin Woodward

#5. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused. - Author: Terry McMillan

#6. The only thing that is constant is the fact that everything keeps changing. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#7. I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just - Author: Billy Corgan

#8. For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#9. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world. - Author: Vironika Tugaleva

#10. Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#11. It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#12. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. - Author: Sakyong Mipham

#13. Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be. - Author: Steven Redhead

#14. It still is on the run,
time that is.
Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging.
Everything's different,
and yet everything's the same.
Time is just a crazy game. - Author: Amanda Leigh

#15. Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied. - Author: Robert Anthony

#16. Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids. - Author: Clive Owen

#17. You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#18. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming. - Author: Robert Kiyosaki

#19. 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 - Author: Blair Holden

#20. You live in your body, but your ever-changing body is not who you are. You live through situations, but they come and go and are not who you are. You have thoughts, but the thousands of thoughts that pass through your mind are not who you are. Remaining - Author: Mary Nurriestearns

#21. Who are you going swimming with?" Kinsley asked again.

"You're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition," I replied.

"Stop changing the subject! With whom do you plan to swim?! - Author: R.S. Grey

#22. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else? - Author: J. Michael Straczynski

#23. Being meek does not make you weak. You're not someone who sways with changing circumstances. You don't allow yourself to be used. You're not passive or spineless. Your faith is in the Almighty, so you know that you are mighty. - Author: Toni Sorenson

#24. Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand? - Author: Juliette Binoche

#25. The truth is that not story or life lived goes on without the experiences changing you. For better or worse, life does that. The events that take place make you who you are. Sometimes they take more than you have to give. - Author: Joann Buchanan

#26. Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. - Author: Deepak Chopra

#27. We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name. - Author: Narendra Modi

#28. If you don't think it's nearly impossible to change someone who is not willing to change, just think how hard it is to change yourself, and you are willing. - Author: Charles F. Glassman

#29. What we see, we see
and seeing is changing - Author: Adrienne Rich

#30. I guess that's the thing about a hero's journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to. I had changed. - Author: Kami Garcia

#31. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. - Author: Anna Jameson

#32. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word. - Author: John Steinbeck

#33. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy. - Author: Ariana Grande

#34. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing. - Author: Ed Speleers

#35. We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak. - Author: Alberto Villoldo

#36. I have no fear of changing looks. - Author: Richard Prince

#37. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse. - Author: Liz Phair

#38. Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. - Author: Adriaan Kortlandt

#39. You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries. - Author: Lisa Mangum

#40. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time. - Author: Frances Perkins

#41. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments. - Author: Silvia Hartmann

#42. Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. - Author: Gilbert Highet

#43. It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock. - Author: Jo Beverley

#44. I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard. - Author: Bob Dylan

#45. The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever. - Author: May Sarton

#46. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely. - Author: Bill Hicks

#47. I do think that's one of the strengths of the show is every year there's sort of the giant rock gets thrown into the stream and Selina has to figure out how to get around the rock. It's in Veep's DNA, whether anyone realized it or not, to constantly be changing. - Author: David Mandel

#48. Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. - Author: Edwin Land

#49. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away. - Author: Johan Oscar Smith

#50. I love the flowers for their beauty and dazzling smile. I love the moon for its soothing light and changing style. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#51. The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality. - Author: Linda Wells

#52. It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#53. I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. - Author: Patrick Rothfuss

#54. Books record knowledge,
preserve wisdom,
and disseminate information;
nourishing minds, changing lives. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#55. Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship. - Author: John Ralston Saul

#56. Change your 'Nafs', change the world. - Author: Nouman Ali Khan

#57. After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. - Author: Marshall Goldsmith

#58. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose. - Author: Orrin Woodward