Change
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
- Kierkegaard, S°ren
- Kierkegaard, S°ren
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
- Plutarch
- Plutarch
Above all things you've got to be yourself, and if some rule or guideline excludes you because of who you are, then you are obligated to change the rules.
- Katheryn Phillips
- Katheryn Phillips
A rut is a grave with no ends.
- Lampkin, Alan
- Lampkin, Alan
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
- Linda Dillow
- Linda Dillow
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.
- Sutrakritanga
- Sutrakritanga
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.
- Buckle, Henry Thomas
- Buckle, Henry Thomas
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
- Deepak Chopra
- Deepak Chopra
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
- Joseph Addison
- Joseph Addison
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
- Biko, Steven
- Biko, Steven
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.
- Gordon Moore
- Gordon Moore
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
- Montesquieu, Charles De
- Montesquieu, Charles De
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
- Paz, Octavio
- Paz, Octavio
Swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
- Stanhope, Philip Dormer
- Stanhope, Philip Dormer
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
- Gerald White Johnson
- Gerald White Johnson


















