Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Many people are so afraid of change.

The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

Every monster was a man first.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

We see, we feel, we change.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Awareness is always the first step.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.