Quotes about change

I knew that if things were going to improve, I was the one responsible for making it happen

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change

But things will change, you wait and see.

They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. (from the Prologue, p4)

It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.

In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

Change begins when we learn to "own" our emotional brains. That means learning to observe and tolerate the heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations that register misery and humiliation.

When the Wheel turns, much that is impossible in the old phase becomes commonplace in the new.

“From within such a calcified culture, no change can be generated; the impetus for reform must arise from without. Hence, the external threat posed by Hunan Diath.”

“Who does not exist,” said Filidor.

“Who need not exist,” said Gaskarth, “so long as the idea can do its work.”

New life must come from within. As for contentment-I don't even want it.

The stories had changed. It was as [he] had said, the stories had changed. And our lives had changed. We were living under the machines, and under a changing landscape, which can change you, shift the insides of you. (Roimata, ch23 p151)

It means I’ve been changed, fundamentally and permanently. It means I cannot be put back to what I was.

That’s why I am B: I cannot be put back to what I was.