Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.
– Ingrid Weir
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
– Margaret Cho
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
– Clive James
Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.
– Epictetus
That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
– Lisa Alther
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
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
– Alfred North Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
– A. N. Whitehead
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
– G Gaia
The Dalai Lama once said that ‘If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!’ This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
– Doris Lessing
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
– Maggie Kuhn
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
– From "Taxi"
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
– Marilyn Ferguson
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
– Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
– Colin Wilson
The more things change the more they remain the same.
– Alphonse Karr, Les Guêpes
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
– Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
– Henry Louis Mencken
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
– Robyn Davidson
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
– Maya Angelou
The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.
– Dr.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change.
– Carl R. Rogers
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
– Bret Harte
