Quotes About Change

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl.

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale — you've licked the smoking habit.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.