Virginia Satir Quotes

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

I'm passionate about transformation.

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

People do change.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

Everyone can change.

I'm very interested in how people change.

You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.