Quotes About Change

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

How often must I tell you that we are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the responsibilities of our future.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

There is some chance of my retiring... And yet, though I thought such a proposal when first made was like a Pisgah peep of Paradise, I cannot help being a little afraid of changing the habits of a long life all of a sudden and for ever...

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.

I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.

In office a Confucian, in retirement a Taoist.

A great comfort, it has been called, if, in looking on to future years, you are able to think that you are in a profession or a calling from which you will never retire: for the prospect of a total change in your mode of life, and the final pause of the Occupation which for many years employed the greater part of your waking thoughts, and all this amid the failing powers and flagging hopes of declining years, is both a sad and a perplexing prospect to a thoughtful person.

Science is the record of dead religions.

There's no one season such delight can bring As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring.

the vibrant green-yellow-pink blossom-life of spring the watery-blue radiant sunshine-breath of summer the metallic-earth-toned glowing-decay of autumn the grey-white holly-festive slow-motion of winter

Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.

autumn strolls, winter slithers spring skips, summer swims

late winter and early spring blend and blur in pleasant days and chilly nights penetrating sun and gentle cool breezes with stirrings of life, subtle and green — mornings that light ever earlier rouse us, but sunsets that still come in evening's youth lull

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

summer leads into autumn autumn leafs into winter winter leans into spring spring leaps into summer

Spring and summer come with a lush layer of foliage over reality, but when things start falling away in the autumn and get bare and stark in the winter we're forced to look at things more as they really are, including ourselves.

The cold dull glow of winter warms to the colorful brilliance of springtime.

Forecast for the Seasons spring — giddy and warm summer — happy and hot autumn — serene and chilly winter — blessed and freezing

Spring is a lover Summer, a partier Autumn, an artist Winter, a philosopher

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?

Seasons depart peripherally.

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.