Change is a Constant

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
US actress (1949 - )


They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )


Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin


The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)


He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967


We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'


Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)


Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon, M.D.


Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.


We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989


The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations


Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004


This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010


The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04



There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'



Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)



Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark


This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004


Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966


Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)


If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010


Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943