Change Quotes

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves. How often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and gradually, and the last conviction effaces all memory of the former: […]

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences… the world doesn’t fear a new idea. It can pigeon hole any idea. But it can’t pigeon hole a real new experience.

All is flux, nothing stays still.

Whoever reviews the state of his own mind from the dawn of manhood to its decline, and considers what he pursued or dreaded, slighted or esteemed, at different periods of his age, will have no reason to imagine such changes of sentiment peculiar to any station or character. Every man, however careless and inattentive, has […]

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, “This is what I believe. Finished.” What I believe is alive… and open to growth.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Impermanence – all is impermanence. The cock rises to fall again.

There are places I remember all my life, Though some have changed, Some forever, not for better, Some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In my life I’ve loved them all. But of all these […]

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.