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Quotes About Change

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
~ Joseph Campbell
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
~ Japanese Proverb
Changes in life are like extra strength Gold Bond Medicated Powder. The burning means it's working.
~ John Mayer
If we gaze at the clouds, then close our eyes for a few minutes, then re-open them and the clouds are different, we don't freak out about it. So, why do we worry when things shift and change in our lives? New day, new sky, every moment too.
~ Terri Guillemets
We may as well make friends with Change — the instant the Moon is full it's already starting to wane
~ Terri Guillemets
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
~ Bernard Shaw
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
~ Sam Ewing, unverified
It is so odd to think of myself as an uncle. I should have laughed at twenty if one had told me that forty would find me wifeless and childless. But so it is, and I shall go and play "Uncle John" at Christmas to the children of wiser and happier folk...
~ John Richard Green, 1876
The convention of one age is the laughing-stock of the next.
~ Robert Lynd, "Beaver," 1922
The English winter — ending in July, To recommence in August...
~ Lord Byron
It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted.
~ G. K. Chesterton, 1934
I wish life had an Undo function.
~ Author Unknown
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
~ Author Unknown
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause & reflect).
~ Mark Twain, 1905
I may not be different, but I'm definitely not the same.
~ William J. Dybus
If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.
~ Author Unknown
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
~ Mark Twain, "Consistency"
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
~ E. B. White, 1954
The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.
~ Mary Solaro, 1969
Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
~ Italian proverb
Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.
~ Internet meme
When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."
~ Author Unknown
A guide to turning your clocks back in November: * Smartphone: Leave it alone to do its magic * Sundial: Move one house to the left * Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering, or a hammer * Car radio: Not worth it, wait six months
~ Author Unknown
Is Daylight Saving Time a form of time travel?
~ Internet meme