Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher


We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck; America and Americans


Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time; and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer


When you are through changing; you are through. ~Bruce Barton


Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman; Apologia pro vita sua; 1864


You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:? If you fall in the mud puddle; check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown


I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~George Carlin


If you want to make enemies; try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson


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.


It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


Oh; would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas; as the tree does its withered leaves!? ~Andre Gide


Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman


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 only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow


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


A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi


Things alter for the worse spontaneously; if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon


All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow


Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~Faith Baldwin


Change always comes bearing gifts. ~Price Pritchett


We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. ~Lynn Hall


Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery


When we are no longer able to change a situation; we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown


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


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


If you would attain to what you are not yet; you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding; keep walking; keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine


It is not the strongest of the species that survive; nor the most intelligent; but the one most responsive to change. ~Author unknown; commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin


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





Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones. ~V.L. Allineare


People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore


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


The wheel of change moves on; and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru


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


After you've done a thing the same way for two years; look it over carefully. After five years; look at it with suspicion. And after ten years; throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman; New York Times; 3 July 1958


Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott


Because things are the way they are; things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht


We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford


Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches; letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer


What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Neurotic's Notebook; 1960


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


When you jump for joy; beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ~Stanislaw Lec


"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon; ""On Innovation;"" Essays; 1597"


If nothing ever changed; there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown


If you want to truly understand something; try to change it. ~Kurt Lewin


It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming? (Thank you; Michelle.)


Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter


No two men ever judged alike of the same thing; and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar; not only in different men but in the same men at different times. ~Michel Montaigne


Our only security is our ability to change. ~John Lilly


Sudden resolutions; like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer; indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare; Guesses at Truth; by Two Brothers; 1827


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


The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw


There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound


A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~Confucius; Analects


Things do not change; we change. ~Henry David Thoreau


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


Time; which changes people; does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust