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James Allen (top)
The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
- James Allen


Saint Aurelius Augustine (top)
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- Saint Aurelius Augustine


Unknown Author (top)
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
- Unknown Author


Francis Bacon (top)
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon


Faith Baldwin (top)
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
- Faith Baldwin


Bruce Barton (top)
When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton


William Blake (top)
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake


Bertolt Brecht (top)
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertolt Brecht


George Carlin (top)
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin


Confucius (top)
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius


Michael Dell (top)
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
- Michael Dell


Dwight D. Eisenhower (top)
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


Mary Engelbreit (top)
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
- Mary Engelbreit


Anatole France (top)
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Anatole France


John Kenneth Galbraith (top)
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith


André Gide (top)
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
- André Gide


Ellen Glasgow (top)
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
- Ellen Glasgow


Washington Irving (top)
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving


Stanislaw J. Lec (top)
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec


John Lilly (top)
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly


Mignon McLaughlin (top)
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Mignon McLaughlin
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
- Mignon McLaughlin


Henry Miller (top)
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- Henry Miller


Jawaharlal Nehru (top)
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
- Jawaharlal Nehru


John Henry Cardinal Newman (top)
Growth is the only evidence of life.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman


Laurens Van der Post (top)
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
- Laurens Van der Post


Ezra Pound (top)
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
- Ezra Pound


Marcel Proust (top)
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- Marcel Proust


Arthur Schopenhauer (top)
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


George Bernard Shaw (top)
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
- George Bernard Shaw


John A, Sr. Simone (top)
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
- John A, Sr. Simone


John Steinbeck (top)
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
- John Steinbeck


Shunryu Suzuki (top)
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
- Shunryu Suzuki


Henry David Thoreau (top)
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau


Paul Valéry (top)
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
- Paul Valéry


Woodrow Wilson (top)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson