~ It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~
~ All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~
~ When you are through changing, you are through. ~
~ They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~
~ Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~
~ If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~
~ People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~
~ Our only security is our ability to change. ~
~ Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ~
~ Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ~
~ We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. ~
~ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ~