Change and Transformation

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

What we think we become.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

A different language is a different vision of life.

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.

Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones.