Quotes for: change

Quotes for: change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Change alone is the constant.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

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 Gustav Jung

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

The dunes change with the wind, but the desert remains the same.

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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's Adventures in Wonderland

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

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

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

You could not step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

You could not step twice into the same river.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

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Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Change is always a pleasant thing.
Euripides

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw

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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method

Things do not change we change.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

A plan that cannot be changed is a bad one.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan Watts

Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
Guy de Maupassant

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse de Lamartine