Quotes about Change

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

And this, too, shall pass away.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

this too shall pass

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.