Quotes About Change

Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,Saying that now you are not as you wereWhen you had changed from the one who was all to me,But as at first, when our day was fair.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

There is not one familiar face Where many loved me once! I speak aloud--the lonely place Returns no kind response! Where I and others roved, I see Another roving race; Gay smiles are there--but ah! for me, Not one familiar face!

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

O God! O God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass,To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

It's funny, but after you break up a family, no matter how dysfunctional, you start repressing the bad memories. But then something comes along to remind you all over again.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and governments to gain ground.

Old Temples will fall. New Temples will be built. Temples to The Red Dragon" - The UR-Prophecy, received in Marrakesh, Morocco, 1989.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.

The failure of our efforts to serve teaches us how to serve: that is, with complete dependence on divine inspiration. This is what changes the world.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment. For example, instead of drinking your friends under the table as a significant sign of self-worth and esteem, if you enter a monastery, as I did, fasting the other monks under the table could become your new path to glory.