Quotes About Change

I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost.

History is the daughter of time.

No evil can persist, and as to things, Why, nothing is unchangeable.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Any great change must expect opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.