Changing Quotes

“Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.” – Plato”
― Jessica Simmonds, A Spiritual Warrior's Path to Re-Enlightening

“They keep changing things as the internet matures.”
― Steven Magee

“Anyway, is it hard for you to be in here? Or is it more of a comfort thing?'
...
'It feels like coming home, but not. And it's not that it's changed- this place never changes. Hell, I think change is the mortal enemy of a scribe. But I'm starting to realise that I've changed. I don't quite fit here. Not anymore.'

'Yeah. I get that.' Something in his voice tells me he really does.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“My thoughts on certain things are changing in ways I never thought they would. It's crazy what age, experience, and observation does to you.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Accept it, Ignore it or Change it but don't complain”
― Kunal Tandel (KT)

“Research has demonstrated that in order to change, we don't unlearn behaviors; we have to learn alternatives.”
― Jeffrey Foote, Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change

“There is weird stuff going on, far more than just COVID-19 and it is coming out of the changing environment.”
― Steven Magee

“Changing nature is destruction, not construction.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It wasn't that she wanted so badly to remain in Paris; more than anything, she was incapable of deciding, of striking in a different, unknown direction, and was frustrated by her inability to release herself from her life as easily as her husband had, a top spiraling across a flat surface.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

“Pollution drives gender changing.”
― Steven Magee

“The toxic western society. The governments know what the toxins are and they are covering it up. Exposure to toxins cause developmental problems in children and gender changing.”
― Steven Magee

“By this point I was growing convinced that my ever changing, ever evolving opinion was less sophisticated than a monkey's. My emotions were not a reliable foundation upon which to base my well-being. My opinion, and everything it was built on was about as solid as tapioca.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“True friendship is being support of one another through all the changing scenes of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you ask someone to be who they aren’t, who they told you they weren’t, even if just for one second, no matter how small it seems to you, and they do, pieces of the person you loved - at least in your presence - disappear. And you are to blame.

The smile is often the first thing to go. Than their patience with you. Then their kindness.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Nobody says it, of course, it’s all ‘I’m so excited; I’m so happy for you!’ But deep down, every friend is thinking ‘Shit. Everything’s changing. I’m going to lose my mate to this person who could absolutely be a total and utter bastard. And I’ve got to smile throughout it while I let them go into the arms of a potential monster. And what does that mean for us?’ Poke writing a speech, I would actually like to spend my time having an existential crisis in peace.”
― Lia Louis, Dear Emmie Blue

“Changes are good. (...) We all change. You can't avoid changes, they're part of who we are. They make life so perfectly imperfect.”
― Klaudia M., Perfectly imperfect: The sequel to Imperfectly perfect

“Maybe I was so resistant to change, I wasn’t letting Nia do the changing she needed. And so she did the changing without me.”
― Stephanie J. Scott

“Changing the name doesn't change the character or fate.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“To let me go is to trust that I am supposed to go. To hold onto me when I say I need to grow is to show me that you too know, I don’t belong here.”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin Andrews, Space

“If you believe that someone needs to change, you must first change yourself and how you present yourself to that person. It is only through your changing that another can be influenced to change. Change starts with you.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Circumstances are always changing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I don't believe your love for your family has to mean you sacrifice who you are for them, or for tradition. The world changes, whether we try to keep it the same or not. I get that you need to embrace your family's heritage, and you should, but it can't be some box you get put into that can only look the way it's always looked.”
― Sabrina Fedel, All Roads Lead to Rome

“Such silly things, children--and so embarrassing--because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“The real change starts with the individual, because each person's action either heals the world, or further plunges it downhill.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Maybe we’re okay kid?
I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love,
you won’t be able to see beyond it.

You won’t be able to see beyond it,
I’ll rewrite this whole life and this time there’ll be so much love.
Maybe we’re okay kid...”
― Warsan Shire

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he didn't 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali”
― Julie Hannan, The Midlife Crisis Handbook: Finding Direction in the Second Half of Life

“To be yourself in world that is constantly changing is a great gain in life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly changing is joy of contentment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“i can’t hide the girl i was from you / ‘cause i know her better than the new one / she had a lot more decided / whereas this one just decides she knows nothing at all / decides it’s for the better / ‘cause what if she opens up and everyone slowly stops to call?”
― Arabella Leyla

“i can’t hide the girl i was from you / because she’s right in here / i can’t hide the girl i was from you / just shove her under my seat / but you see the waving motion / you see her shy retreat”
― Arabella Leyla