Change and Transformation

Nothing is permanent but change.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

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

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour by hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;

All things have second birth;

On or about December 1910 human nature changed.

I used to be Snow White … but I drifted.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform.

Ils n’ont rien appris, ni rien oublié.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Man is not truly one, but truly two.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.