Quotes about Change
Change is the universal experience. Thou art thyself undergoing a perpetual transformation and, in some sort, decay: aye and the whole Universe as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.
— Marcus Aurelius
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here
— Marcus Aurelius
There is a river of creation, and time is a violent stream. As soon as one thing comes into sight, it is swept past and another is carried down: it too will be taken on its way.
— Marcus Aurelius
Potential has a shelf life.
— Margaret Atwood
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
— Margaret Atwood
I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.
— Margaret Atwood
and the evening was so beautiful, that it made a pain in my heart, as when you cannot tell wether you are happy or sad; and I thought that if I could have a wish, it would be that nothing would ever change, and we would stay that way forever.
— Margaret Atwood
But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.
— Margaret Atwood
We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
— Margaret Atwood
The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.
— Margaret Atwood
In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them habits , a good word for them. Habits are hard to break.
— Margaret Atwood