Quotes
Quotes about Change
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]
Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.
My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
If someone were to prove to meâright this minuteâthat God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
