Quotes About Change

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

Excellent. I feel better already. My lady, you have had a very positive influence over Lord Westerville. He has left the morbid world of Only Black behind and now embraces other colors of the spectrum.

You'd leave the farm? I asked. He nodded. You'd leave school?

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..

Life is all arrivals and departures.

In the feudal fiefdom of school, rank was determined early. You could change your hair and clothes. You could, having learned your lesson, not write a paper on Julius Caesar entirely in iambic pentameter or you could not tell anyone if you did. You could switch to contact lenses, compensate for your braininess by not doing your homework. Every boy in school could grow twelve inches. The sun could go fucking nova. And you'd still be the same grotesque you'd always been.

An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

A quote hung on the opposite wall: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

IN EVERYONE'S LIFE there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken away against their will.

Whoever I was before is no one I ever got to know.

So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

Before, my brother was part of the family. After, he was just killing time until he could be shed of us.

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.

Karen Joy Fowler

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been

Your body is the temporary temple of your Spirit. What you keep around you in the extended temple of your home needs to change as you change and grow, so that it reflects who you are. Particularly if you are engaged in any kind of self-improvement work, you need to update your environment regularly. So get into the habit of leaving a trail of discarded clutter in your wake, and start to think of it as a sign of your progression!