Quotes About Change

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

Death is just — a dash between one life and the next.

Dieting is wishful shrinking.

I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Our passions are true phœnixes: as the old burn out, the new straight rise up out of the ashes.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

The best faith is not the stagnant, same-every-day, sit-still faith but the faith that dances and sways with life.

With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers. An adventurous swallow too early flying from the south, a vision of snowdrops in the snow, a day of April warmth lit by a slant February sun, are all hailed with pleasure as harbingers of a more gracious season on its northland way.

February makes a bridge and March breaks it.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

I long for flowers that bend with the wind and rain...

Revolutions are not made with rose water.

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

Sometimes you can make people forget the past with a present.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to move a step beyond that.

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Each day seems a new beginning, — a new acquaintance with grief.