Change is never convenient. I'm talking about acceptance here. Don't be misguided into thinking change is going to be easy. If you're facing change then you're challenging a norm, your norm. You've adapted to that, and now it's being challenged. It's being turned inside out and upside down. You may feel that can't quite find your footing. It's all foreign. You may feel lost in it, quite unsure of yourself, unsure of what to do, or how to do it. Don't worry. Everything new was once like this, and you made it through. You'll find a way. Have faith. Keep hope in your heart. If you want to get to the other side of anything you need to work through and endure change. It can be awkward and uncomfortable. Change is never comfortable. It takes time and patience. It takes self-love and acceptance. Furthermore, it takes grace and self-forgiveness. Take it one step at a time. Break it down. You'll make it to the other side.

— Akiroq Brost

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

— Richard Rohr

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

— Thomas L. Friedman

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.

— Howard Zinn

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favorites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

— Leonardo Donofrio

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself. Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world. She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself. And that would have to do.

— L.J. Smith

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

— David Lynch

Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.

— Debasish Mridha

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

— Leon C. Megginson