Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Working with Operation Smile is a completely life-altering experience. It is truly inspiring to be a part of something with so many unique individuals who come together for the greater good of helping others.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I feel the same way about Shondaland I feel about Africa and Greece. I feel pretty in both places. Men look at me like I'm a novelty, and women think I'm just cool. I feel absolutely at home immediately. I'm not altering myself to fit in. I'm walking in just as I am. And there are open arms stretched out to greet me.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it's fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering

Happiness is a decision you make. It is an intensely personal choice. It often stems from a feeling of being unsettled?something's not right?explore deeper and you will find that you are unhappy?dig deeper and you will go to the source of that unhappiness?then you invest yourself in that decision to weed out, even pluck out, that source of unhappiness?that's how you decide to be happy?it is a process of making a Life-altering decision?!

Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology-but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.

Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

I felt overwhelmed. I didn't expect a first kiss to be so?life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother's arms, he'd put me in Ren's. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I'd kept mine locked away.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second telling other people to do so.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State now 50 States the same way but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.