Quotes About Change

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

When all the world is young, lad,And all the trees are green;And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a queen;Then hey for boot and horse, lad,And round the world away:Young blood must have its course, lad,And every dog his day.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933.

We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations - is sovereign in human affairs. Everything ultimately rests upon it. Fairly or not, politics is the driver of history.

There are things to be done. Resist retreat as a matter of strategy and principle. And provide the means to continue our dominant role in the world by keeping our economic house in order. And finally, we can follow the advice of Demosthenes when asked what was to be done about the decline of Athens. His reply? 'I will give what I believe is the fairest and truest answer: Don't do what you are doing now.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Paradoxically, we often feel like this false self is our natural state, the way we "should be." This could be our addiction or attachment to being that way. We become so accustomed to being our false self that our Real Self feels guilty, like something is wrong, that we shouldn't feel real and alive. To consider changing this problem is frightening.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

New Year's is every man's birthday.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

I have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

You can stare into the past but only your future is within your control.