Change Quotes

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age." "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done." "The only thing we can depend on from life is that it will surprise us." "Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time." "It is a curious thing that at my age one begins to dread the dropping of acquaintances. Like a tree, which it is said must be spared any more cutting at its roots, one feels that one cannot bear to lose any more of one's friends." "The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change" "A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided" "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening." "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." "Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass" "It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protest against change particularly change for the better" "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction "