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Powerful Quotes on Change
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All changes, even the most longed for,
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
The only person who likes change is a
The only person who likes change is a wet baby.
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Alcoholics Anonymous has a great definition of how we change: We change when the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing . -
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To change one’s life: start immediately, Do it flamboyantly, No exceptions. -
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The True Self is all about right relationship, not requirements. It’s not about being correct; it’s about being connected, which you always were—you just didn’t realize it. -
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When he [the prodigal son] found himself desiring to be treated as one of the pigs, he realized that he was not a pig but a human being, a son of his father. . . . Once he had come again in touch with... -
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Transition is one of the givens in our lives, and we only live well, we only manage our lives well, when we manage these transitions well. Our world changes; the circumstances of our lives change. The... -
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The question for each parable is: How did Jesus seek to change attitudes and behaviors with this parable? -
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -
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Many churches never experience a comeback because they want the community to change while they remain the same. But comeback churches are different. They realize that no one remains the same when they... -
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -
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If innovation and change are not fulfilling our need to connect, to belong, to express, to love, to feel alive, how can they satisfy? -
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -
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The secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are... and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this. -
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Jesus insists on this willingness to change, because he knows that self-righteousness will separate us from God forever. We’re all at high risk of becoming sick with self-righteousness, and if we don’... -
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just... -
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At root, change means the partial or total abandonment of the norms, safeties, and patterns of behavior that make our lives manageable. -
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There are at least three kinds of changes we face: those we wouldn’t choose but we can see coming, those we choose ourselves, and those that flood our homes at two in the morning. -
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I have come to understand that to study leadership is to study the science of transitions. -
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We’re all struggling to say the same old things in new and different ways. And so we must praise the new and different ways. -
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The majority of church members need to be involved in the change or it will soon produce resistance. -
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. -
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Don't take the fence down until you know the reason it was put up. -
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. -
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -
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The only person who likes change is a wet baby. -
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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. -
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. -
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. -
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -
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You know the adage “People resist change.” It is not really true. People are not stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people r... -
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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