"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change." Brett Harte

"Tears have a purpose. They are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed." Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

"The starting point of all significant change is mindset." Tom Peters

"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change." Thomas Hardy

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves." Mahatma Gandhi

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different." Bill Watterson

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
 Jon Krakauer

"It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world." Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, 
going more or less in one direction
 until we splash into something
 that forces us to find a new course." 
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired." Unknown

"The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." Japanese Proverb

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change." Thich Nhat Hanh

"When the wind changes direction, there are those who build walls and those who build windmills." Chinese proverb

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." George Santayana




"The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret J. Wheatley


"Anger controlled is a power that can move the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Time is the stealthy ghost that hides the wisps of change." Robert Genn

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." Roy Adzak

"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." Harold Kushner

"Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other." Dr. Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975), American author

"Working with metaphor involves the skill of transforming one thing into another that is more valuable. Metaphors are intimately connected to the concept of transformation; in ancient Greek, the word metaphor means a transformer. Children naturally transform so many things they encounter around them. With imaginative boldness, the turn bed pillows into mountains, a cardboard box into a ship, and a blanket into an ocean to sail across. Like children, we need to use the power of metaphor to touch the inner truths of the images we create, because metaphor is the authentic reflection of artistic creativity. Like art, it is dynamic, has not strict rules about meaning, and is by nature fluid and flexible." Cathy Malchiodi

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." Maria Montessori

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author (1936-2005)

"Change is the process by which the future invades our lives." Alvin Toffler

"The best change is what the people think they did themselves." Lao Tzu

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything . . . or nothing." Lady Astor

"Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction." Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose." Thomas Szasz

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change." Jesse Jackson

"We are all trying to get better--if you're standing still, you're getting worse." Tiger Woods

"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change." Maya Angelou

“Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.” Mark Twain

“There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.” George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen

�Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.� Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

“You do not have to be a hurricane to turn things around.” Marleen Loesje

“Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.” Caroline Schoeder

"That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain." Francis Bacon

"The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret J. Wheatley

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” Henri Bergson

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself 10 years ago." Horace Mann (1796-1859) American educator

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” R. D. Laing

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Jacob M. Braude

“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.” Jim Rohn

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” C. G. Jung

“After you’ve done a ting the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.” Alfred Edward Perlman

“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life. I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.” Miles Davis

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.” Mignon McLaughlin

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

“I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stiff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they have always been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.” John W. Gardner (b. 1912) American writer, government official

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist

“The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.” Henry Ford

“Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can effect change--it can not only move us, it makes us move.” Ossie Davis

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” Robert Anthony