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 […]
Change Quotes
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Oh, how we fear the metamorphoses through which we truly become fledged humans, real mensches of the species homo sapiens. Yet even if we do not willingly undergo them, changes pursue us just the same. The woman who never bears a child metamorphoses in different ways. We may dig in our heels and dare life […]
The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart – an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore, they […]
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang – if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their […]
All true things must change, and only that which changes remains true. Everything ages and needs transformation and renewal.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life. Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
