Quote on Change

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~Harold Wilson If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming (Thanks, Michelle) 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 When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Viktor Frankl 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 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 You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~Denis Waitley Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher 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. Simone, Sr. 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 When you are through changing, you are through. ~Bruce Barton 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 What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps. ~Euripides, Hecuba They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow 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 Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864 Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ~William H. Seward 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 The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~William Blake Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability" You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown