Quotes About Change

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;—be it so!

Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade   Of that which once was great is pass'd away.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

It's good to change. If the change brings about confusion, who cares? Confusion makes you think. And that's another good thing.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.

I]ch habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen." ("I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: Berlin will live, and the Wall will come down.") Speech at Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin City Hall) on November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Their deepest desire—believe me about this—is to change our way of living. Their deepest desire is to make us like them. I swear it." Tasunke

I wanted only what I had asked from the pipe of the sun dancer—that the words that came from the spirits through me change a million hearts. They needed changing. Twenty

Half a life ago I was one man, and am now another. Where once I paid attention to my head, I now follow my heart. Where I once I strove for achievement, I now seek to give and receive love. Though I still want to earn a living, my writing now is entirely born in love and offered as love. I

Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.