“Would you change anything? Like who you are with or what you do or what kind of person you are, because if you would: Do It Now! This is it, this is all we have: Right here, right now.”
“I’m starting with the man in the mirror /
I’m asking him to change his ways /
And no message could have been any clearer /
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change /”
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you’ve carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”
“This, then, is it: not the crude anguish of physical death, but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another. Easy, you know, does it, son.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“It’s like trying to stop a fire/
With the moisture from a kiss /
And I hear them saying you’ll never change things /
And no matter what you do it’s still the same thing /
But it’s not the world that I am changing /
I do this so this world will know /
That it will not change me”
