Change isn't always for the best.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
—Mignon McLaughlin
I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!
—John Stuart Mill
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
—George Santayana
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero—really look—and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
—Lucretius
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
—Irene Peter
People change and forget to tell each other.
—Lillian Hellman
You cannot step into the same river twice.
—Heraclitus
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
—Henry Drummond
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
—Edward Gibbon
He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
—Shannon L. Alder
He's turned his life around. He used to be miserable and depressed; now he's depressed and miserable.
—David Frost