Change Quotes

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

Greenville County (S. C.) Department of Social Services, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

Pope Gregory The Great

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ovid

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.

Maggie Roche

People change and forget to tell eachother.

Lillian Hellman

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change in all things is sweet.

Aristotle

Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg