Personal Change Quotes

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  • Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  • Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.

  • Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

  • Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change. Recover to Live may alter the way broader society looks at the disease of addiction and those who are suffering from it.

  • There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  • Persistence is the mother of personal change

  • When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press
  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  • Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  • Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

    Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

    Life   Change   Dance  
  • I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

    Cancer   Healing   Health  
  • I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Ris has gone through the whole spectrum of personal change and has had the longest road of all. And in the end she chooses to come back to the world, to guide, and to help, and to open the eyes of those who are suffering. In that is her true strength and humorous wisdom. I really do like her a whole lot.

    Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com
  • Be the change you want to see.

  • Build what you want to see in the world.

  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

    "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.
  • Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

    "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
  • In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

    Dream   Sleep   Soul  
    Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
  • You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015
  • The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

  • The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  • ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

    Pain   Thinking   Ideas  
  • Be the change you want to see in your networks

  • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  • Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

    Jobs   Children   Pain  
  • One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

    Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons
  • Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a key, we have forgotten the importance of fallow time and winter and rests in music. We have abandoned a whole system of dealing with the neutral zone through ritual, and we have tried to deal with personal change as though it were a matter of some kind of readjustment.

    Winter   Keys   Car  
    William Bridges (1980). “Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes”, Da Capo Press
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