Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn't marry because I had to change.

You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy

I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.