Quotes about Change

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.