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Quotes About Change

Age merely shows what children we remain.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.
~ Gore Vidal
Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
~ Karl Lagerfeld