The universe is transformation.

- Louise Erdrich

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

- Robert Neelly Bellah

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

Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

- Frederick F. Flack

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

- Marge Piercy

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

- William Ellery Channing

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

- Michelle Obama

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Alan Watts

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

- Michael Jordan

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

- Frances Moore Lappé

?Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

- Jillian Michaels

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter



I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

- Anais Nin



How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank



Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do -- or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford



He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Bob Dylan



[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

- Margaret J. Wheatley



An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

- Frank Lloyd Wright



The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

- Charles Dickens



It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

- Ralph Ellison



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

- John Cage



I'm nowhere as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

- A. J. Foyt



Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

- Tara Brach



I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White



That "change makes us uncomfortable" is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around.... [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we "know" to be present that causes us anxiety. (from Immunity to Change)

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey



Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin



Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

- Alan Cohen



Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

- Anne Sullivan



We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

- Anne Sullivan



We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

- Christopher Lasch



We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other as doorways.

- Marge Piercy



Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being.

- Susan Skye



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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

- Simone de Beauvoir



The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

- John F. Kennedy



It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

- Sharon Salzberg



Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

- Marcus Aurelius



And when that person moves away, someone else arises to take his or her place.

- Parker J. Palmer



Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

- Audre Lorde



No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

- Barbara de Angelis