Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Change Quotes
A year ago, if I had $100 in gold in my pocket, I was a law-abiding citizen; if I perchance had a pint of whiskey I was a criminal. Today, if I have the whiskey, I am a law-biding citizen; but if I have the gold I am a criminal violating the law.
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can’t and those in cemeteries.
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
What I possess I would gladly retain, change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.