CHANGE QUOTES VI

quotations about change


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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

DAVID SEDARIS
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

speech, Oct. 29, 1867


Lasting change can only come from within.

AHSOKA TANO

"The Academy", Star Wars: The Clone Wars


Change in all things is sweet.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

Mutation


Nature obliges everything to change about.
One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age;
Another grows in its place from a negligible start.
So time alters the whole nature of the world
And earth passes from one state to another.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.

WHISTLER

"Becoming: Part Two", Buffy the Vampire Slayer


Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls
Cause the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

U2

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"


Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Vague Thoughts on Art


Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl


One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

ANNE RICE

Pandora


The best way to understand something is to try to change it.

JEROME BRUNER

New York Times, June 7, 2016