Quotes About Change

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

We have always absorbed our own disintegration.

I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.

all walls were destined to fall, no matter what.

Rami said to the audience that all walls were destined to fall, no matter what. He was not so naive, though, to believe that more would not be built. It was a world of walls. Still, it was his job to insert a crack in the one most visible to him.

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one