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Quotes About Change

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
~ Gregory Maguire
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
~ Guy Finley
I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.
~ Guy Maddin
Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.
~ Harold Ramis
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
~ Heraclitus
The only thing constant is change
~ Heraclitus
Change is the only constant.
~ Heraclitus
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.
~ Isadora Duncan
The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.
~ Jack Canfield
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
~ Jackie Chan
Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.
~ Janet Campbell Hale
She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.
~ Janette Oke
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
~ Joel-Peter Witkin
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
~ William Deresiewicz
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
~ Yann Martel
What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.
~ Yiyun Li
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
~ Zbigniew Herbert
The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.
~ Robert Kiyosaki