Quotes about Change

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

All creativity is based on quantum leaps and uncertainty.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

We are part of a feedback loop that links our conscious acts to the conscious response of the field. In keeping with Heisenberg's implication, the universe presents the face that the observer is looking for, and when she looks for a different face, the universe changes its mask.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

What makes it all possible is raising your awareness. What you aren't aware of you can't change.

All this time he'd thought it was her feelings for Stephen that kept Meridith at arm's length. But Stephen was gone, and still she held back. He'd seen the look in her eyes. She'd been putty in his hands when he'd touched her. And then a wall had come up, shutting him out. What gave? And equally as baffling, how had Meridith, in two and a half months, gone from adversary to keeper of his heart?

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.