There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened. – Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. – Michel Montaigne
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. – Kurt Lewin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin [By the by, “survival o
Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. – Saigyo
Things do not change; we change. – Henry David Thoreau
Our only security is our ability to change. – John Lilly
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. – Bertold Brecht
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. – Francis Bacon, “On Innovation,” Essays, 1597
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon
Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. – Confucius, Analects
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. – Arthur Schopenhauer
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. – Stanislaw Lec
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis
