change
“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise—”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but— I hope — into a better shape.”
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
“All civilization is from time to time a thin crust over a volcano.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
“In my end is my beginning.”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
“Life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
“People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.”
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new.”
“Nought may endure but mutability.”