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Alteration Quotes (page 9)

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. James Allen
It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be? Penelope Lively
Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered. Helen Fielding
Stephen King quote: "Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future..."
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. Stephen King
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or ever to know what those things were but there is... Joyce Carol Oates
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. Leo Tolstoy
Marquis de Sade quote: "The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool."
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. Marquis de Sade
W. H. Auden quote: "Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered."
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. W. H. Auden
Graham Greene quote: "The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details..."
The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. Graham Greene
The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis? Hunter S. Thompson
He possessed the six attributes of the adventurer-- a memory for names and faces, with the aptitude for altering his own; the gift of tongues; inexhaustible invention; secrecy; the talent for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon. Thornton Wilder
Jane Austen quote: "But people themselves alter so much, that there is something..."
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. Jane Austen
Freda Adler quote: "1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--"
1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."-- Freda Adler
As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is... Jonathan Edwards

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