CHANGE QUOTES II

quotations about change

Change quote

Change. We don't like it. We fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. It hurts to grow; anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth: sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change is everything.

DR. MEREDITH GREY

"A Change Is Gonna Come", Grey's Anatomy


I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice in Wonderland


Oh heavy change.
The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Last Conservative"


You must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

ROGER ZELAZNY

Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming


Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

PAUL MCAULEY

The Quiet War


Days change. Seasons change. People don't change.

JACK MOSLEY

16 Blocks


Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway.

J. D. SALINGER

The Catcher in the Rye


We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. LAING

introduction, The Politics of Experience


Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

JAMES BALDWIN

"As Much Truth As One Can Bear", New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962


The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth


One cause of misery is the inability to change.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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.

JOHN STEINBECK

Sweet Thursday


Change demands new learning.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

The Change Masters


They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

ANDY WARHOL

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

WOODY HARRELSON

Go Further


Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating.

M.F. RYAN

O Magazine, Jan. 2007


Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


There is in all change something at once agreeable and infamous, something that smacks of infidelity and of moving day.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fiber.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Change", Reactions and Other Essays