Changes
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
God, life changes faster than you think.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you — what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind — you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes', is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.