Quotes about change

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."

Once upon a time she had suffered under the illusion that if she only exerted herself hard enough, the world would change. Now she knew better.

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

The process of changing your mind is a tricky one. You start at Position A, which you hold with stern stubbornness, resolving never to give it up. Then you start to question your original resolution. Is it wise to be so stubborn? Perhaps you should consider alternate ideas. You revise your original inflexibility a little, abandoning Position A and adopting Position B, which is very much like it in most ways, with only a few ifs and maybes added. Then, by a gradual series of compromises, private deals, and shifts of purpose, you slide spinelessly through the alphabet until you arrive at Position Z, the total opposite of your original point of view.

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential — small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

"Things change," says Mr Shimada. "Is world's sad secret."