“A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one positive action right now. Go ahead and go for it.”— Sarvesh Jain, amazon.com
“Change is the essential process of all existence.”— Oliver Crawford, Gene L. Coon, Leroy Cronin, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely.”— Julian Fellowes, John Bates, Brendan Coyle, imdb.com
“What women did with the Women’s March knocked me out. It wasn’t just a day to scream and cry and to go home and forget about. It was a shot over the bow, like, 'We’re here, and there’s a lot of us, and we’re not going away. You’re going to have to contend with us.'”— Cynthia Nixon, glamour.com
“What has always given me hope is that small steps can lead to sea change.”— Robert Redford, amazon.com
“People don't realize how little it takes to change our world for the better.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“The booze was cheap because it had to be. The bands were cool because bands were still cool then. Everyone knew that everyone else would go there, largely because there was nowhere much else to go.”— Allison P. Davis, thecut.com
“Everyone says Trump is going to change everything way too much. Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That seems like the much more plausible risk to me.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“Love is a force for justice and peace. It’s the best fuel for the work. If we try to fuel social change with bitterness, we’ll eventually run on empty and face the danger of transforming into the inhumanity we oppose.”— Bernice King, twitter.com
“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing. This means we can't use self-hate to lose weight, we can't shame ourselves into becoming better parents and we can't belittle ourselves or our families into becoming who we need them to be. Putting people on the 'loser board' doesn't work. Shame cor…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“"You don't have to rush. You have careers to launch, debts to pay, spouses to meet and marry. That's enough for now. But in the course of your lives, without any plan on your part, you'll come to see suffering that will break your heart. When it happens, and it will, don't turn away from it; turn to…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.”— Melinda Gates, amazon.com
“Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your optimism.”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“But you can change the way you think about other people. You can choose to see their humanity first -- the one big thing that makes them the same as you, instead of the many things that make them different from you.”— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu
“It’s not easy to bring a new idea into existence. It’s not easy even to stand up and talk about why things need to change. I know that from my own experience as a young adolescent searching for my own voice. It’s a long and difficult process, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s never finished. At…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“How does a girl become strong? How does she enact change? How does she grow into a strong woman? It begins with a step that sounds simple, but isn’t. She finds her voice.”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“I have always believed that the world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”— Sarah Michelle Gellar, instagram.com
“Changes only happen when we go totally against everything we’re used to doing.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Mmm, baby, I don't understand this. You're changing, I can't stand it. My heart can't take this damage. And the way I feel, can't stand it. Mmm, baby, I don't understand this. You're changing, I can't stand it.”— XXXTENTACION, open.spotify.com