Things Begin to Change for the Better When We Do

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
A. C. Benson

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
Aldous Huxley

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"No man need stay the way he is."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Things do not change. We change."
Henry David Thoreau

Life Constantly Changes, and So Should We

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future."
Eric Hoffer

"Change is the only evidence of life."
Evelyn Waugh

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
Carol Burnett

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
Gilda Radner

’To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
Helen Keller

More Thoughts About Change

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
Jimmy Carter

"There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live."
Karen Horney

"Life is change; growth is optional."
Karen Kaiser Clark

"You’ve got to continue to grow or you’re just like last night’s cornbread: stale and dry."
Loretta Lynn

The World Keeps Changing (Thank Goodness!)

"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
William C. Bryant

"Ask the God who made you to keep remaking you."
Norman Vincent Peale

"People wish to be settled, but it is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
John Henry Newman

’The secret of a happy life: Accept change gracefully."
Jimmy Stewart

(Short Essays That You May Find Helpful)