Quotes About Change

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

But the unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to get out of than bad ones.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Danger, long travel, want or woe, Soon change the form that best we know— For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair.

I thought I'd try yoga to make myself more flexible — but I'm still incredibly stubborn.

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.

Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

History is Force dressed up.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

A new broom sweeps clean but the old broom knows the corners.

Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

No cabía predecir lo que había de suceder, porque, con todo lo dotado de vida, las cosas ocurrían siempre, por una razón u otra, de modo distinto.

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

The swift changes in our industrial system are causing equally swift changes in our religious, political, and social structures. An unseen and fearful revolution is taking place in the fibre and structure of society. One can only dimly feel these things. But they are in the air, now, to-day. One can feel the loom of them—things vast, vague, and terrible.

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care for nothing. If you had been this way a few months ago, it would have been different. It is too late, now.