Don’t try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, ‘You loved me when you met me, so let’s keep going!’
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.
There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
‘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.
Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.
A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.
If I said it once, I’ll say it again: ‘We have the power to change everything.’
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.
It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it’s easy.
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don’t think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
One day, I know the struggle will change. There’s got to be a change – not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
It’s funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they’ve changed completely.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
