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Quotes about change

Words on change — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost
It's okay if you don't know how to move on. Start with something easier, like not going back.
— Anonymous
Look at your wardrobe. Your routines. Your meals. Your home. Ask yourself if they reflect the person you want to be. If not, start editing.
— Anonymous
Every pattern in your life repeats until you learn the lesson. The moment you choose differently, the loop ends and growth begins.
— Anonymous
When you're born you look like your parents. When you die you look like your decisions.
— Anonymous
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
— Heraclitus
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
— Mark Twain
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
— Leo Tolstoy
All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
— Lao Tzu
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
— Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
— Carl Jung
The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
— Carl Jung
There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
— Alan Watts
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
— Alan Watts
When you are able to create yourself the way you want, you can craft your Destiny the way you want as well.
— Sadhguru
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
— Bruce Lee
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.
— Hermann Hesse
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
— Rumi
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
— Albert Einstein
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
— Viktor Frankl
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
— Charles Dickens
Be the energy you want to attract.
— Anonymous
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
— Nelson Mandela
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
— Arleen Lorrance
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
— Anonymous
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
— Seneca
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
— Victor Hugo
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
— Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— Les Brown
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
— James R. Sherman
If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
— Maya Angelou
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
— Toni Morrison
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
— Audre Lorde
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
— Rosa Parks
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
— Malala Yousafzai
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
— Malala Yousafzai
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone de Beauvoir
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.
— René Descartes
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
— David Hume
The sun is new every day.
— Heraclitus