Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Money does not change people, people change.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.