144 Inspiring Quotes For Change

Change is an inevitable part of life, shaping our experiences, growth, and perspectives. Whether it comes in the form of a new career, personal transformation, or societal shifts, embracing change can lead to profound and positive developments. In moments of uncertainty, words have the power to motivate and provide clarity. This collection of 144 inspiring quotes about change has been thoughtfully curated to uplift, encourage, and guide you through life's transitions. Allow these timeless insights from philosophers, leaders, and visionaries to inspire meaningful change in your journey.

1. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” - Leo Tolstoy

2. “To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” - William James

3. “Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.” - Marcus Aurelius

4. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama

5. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

6. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” - William James

7. “Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.” - Nicole Krauss

8. “The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.” - Susan Sontag

9. “The one close to me now,even my own body-these toowill soon become clouds,floating in different directions.” - Izumi Shikibu

10. “Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.” - Twyla Tharp

11. “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.” - John Steinbeck

12. “instinct leads me to another flow” - Queen Latifah

13. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

14. “Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.” - Logan Pearsall Smith

15. “The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet a common practice among the anointed is to declare themselves emphatically, piously, and defiantly in favor of 'change.' Thus those who oppose their particular changes are depicted as being against change in general. It is as if opponents of the equation 2+2=7 were depicted as being against mathematics. Such a tactic might, however, be more politically effective than trying to defend the equation on its own merits. ” - Thomas Sowell

16. “To say goodbye is to die a little.” - Raymond Chandler

17. “Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.” - A.C. Crispin

18. “And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix

19. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” - Wayne W. Dyer

20. “Things yet unknown will change the way you think.” - Toba Beta

21. “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...  This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.” - Isaac Asimov

22. “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

23. “Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.” - Seth Godin

24. “He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.” - Zora Neale Hurston

25. “With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.” - Toba Beta

26. “You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” - COLSON WHITEHEAD

27. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” - Helen Keller

28. “Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)” - Horace

29. “You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.” - Neil Gaiman

30. “Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.” - bell hooks

31. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” - Tony DeLiso

32. “The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.” - George Bernard Shaw

33. “The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.” - Boyd K. Packer

34. “Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.” - Christina Rossetti

35. “If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.” - Steve Maraboli

36. “Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change.” - Steve Maraboli

37. “The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.” - Steve Maraboli

38. “You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!” - Steve Maraboli

39. “Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.” - Steve Maraboli

40. “Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.” - Steve Maraboli

41. “But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die” - Robin Hobb

42. “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” - Walter Mosley

43. “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.” - Andy Warhol

44. “If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?” - Joe Abercrombie

45. “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” - Susanna Kearsley

46. “The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.” - Truman Capote

47. “Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

48. “Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.” - St. John of the Cross

49. “But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But change needn't happen all at once. It can be small gestures.""Moments. Do you understand?" He's looking at me differently now, though I cannot say how. I only know I need to look away...We pass by the pools, where the mud larks sift. And for only a few seconds, I let the magic loose again."Oi! By all the saints!" a boy cries from the river."Gone off the dock?" an old woman calls. The mud larks break into cackles."'S not a rock!" he shouts. He races out of the fog, cradling something in his palm. Curiosity gets the better of the others. They crowd about trying to see. In his palm is a smattering of rubies. "We're rich mates! It's a hot bath and a full belly for every one of us!"Kartik eyes me suspiciously. "That was a strange stroke of good fortune.""Yes it was.""I don't suppose that was your doing.""I'm not sure I don't know what you mean," I say.And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” - Libba Bray

50. “...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or experiencing a loving touch...So while you may not be able to change the wiring in your brain, you can "feed" those reward centers other pleasures...Biology isn't destiny when you have effective strategies...” - Bob Greene

51. “There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.” - Toba Beta

52. “They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.” - Robert Frost

53. “This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.” - Sharon E. Rainey

54. “If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.” - Anita Roddick

55. “It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.” - Deb Caletti

56. “Sometimes, war can make a change.Sometimes, change can ignite a war.” - Toba Beta

57. “What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.” - Leonard Sweet

58. “The old resists the new one.'Change hurts' is the reason.” - Toba Beta

59. “Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.” - Jim Rogers

60. “Hypocrite shouts about the change,but never let risk coming on his way.” - Toba Beta

61. “People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.” - Toba Beta

62. “The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we.” - Santosh Kalwar

63. “Nothing endures but change.” - Heraclitus

64. “Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)” - Seymour Simon

65. “New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?” - H.G. Wells

66. “It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective” - Death Cab for Cutie

67. “Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?” - Janet Skeslien Charles

68. “They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.” - Gouverneur Morris

69. “Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.” - Katherine Mansfield

70. “People learn when they are ready to learn. Are you ready?” - Lorii Myers

71. “This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But events on the same scale, or nearly so, no longer seem to have that power; moneyed interests may have become too entrenched, elites too self-seeking, institutions too feeble, and the public too polarized and passive for the country to be shocked into fundamental change.” - George Packer

72. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” - Helen Hollick

73. “If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.” - James P. Lewis

74. “Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” - Simone de Beauvoir

75. “If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.” - T.F. Hodge

76. “...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belongI belong with you” - Patrick Califia-Rice

77. “Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to benefit from treatment by either antidepressants or psychotherapy. That is why combating depression requires more than merely providing effective treatment for those who are already suffering from it. We also need the change the social conditions - such a racism, unemployment, poverty, unaffordable housing, and lack of adequate education - that put people at increased risk of becoming depressed.” - Irving Kirsch

78. “I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.” - Lisa Genova

79. “I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.” - Vera Nazarian

80. “Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.” - Jodi Picoult

81. “One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even though it felt bitter in soul and pain in body.If you go through and pass it, then your soul and body will be stronger than previous level.When hope emerged, change will occur because of that, both in your soul and in your body.Fear of disapointment is a main enemy of good hope and great change within the human being.Only by facing and overcoming the fear of disapointment, man will become stronger and wiser. ~Salah satu faktor yang membuat manusia enggan untuk berharap adalah rasa takut akan kecewa.Jangan takut dengan kekecewaan! Semakin engkau takut menghadapinya, semakin kecil pengharapanmu.Hadapi dan lawanlah rasa kecewa, meskipun terasa pahit di jiwa dan terasa sakit di tubuh.Jika engkau mampu dan lulus, maka jiwa dan tubuhmu akan lebih kuat dari kondisi sebelumnya.Ketika harapan muncul, perubahan akan terjadi, baik dalam jiwa maupun dalam tubuh manusia.Rasa takut akan kecewa adalah musuh utama pengharapan yang baik dan perubahan yang agung dalam diri manusia.Hanya dengan menghadapi dan melalui rasa takut akan kecewa, seseorang dapat menjadi lebih kuat dan bijaksana.” - Toba Beta

82. “Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all," Petra said softly.” - Blue Balliett

83. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” - Abraham Maslow

84. “If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed.” - Toba Beta

85. “When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

86. “It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.” - Samuel Beckett

87. “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” - kiran desai

88. “Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.” - Cherie Colyer

89. “It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,” - Gertrude Stein

90. “As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.” - C. JoyBell C.

91. “One of the great constants in life is change.” - Heracleitus

92. “It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.” - Kim Edwards

93. “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.” - C. JoyBell C.

94. “Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.” - William Kittredge

95. “Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.” - Philip Larkin

96. “The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.” - Clare Morgan

97. “Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!” - Jeffrey Gitomer

98. “Absolutes are Coercion.Change is absolute.” - Allen Ginsberg

99. “Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.” - Gwen Ro

100. “Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.” - Sam Harris

101. “Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.” - Cheryl Nielsen

102. “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” - Marcel Proust

103. “Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.” - Jim Butcher

104. “We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.” - Brené Brown

105. “As we stand there, it hits me how quickly everything changes - how life is like peering into a kaleidoscope, and just as you're looking at a gorgeous pattern you think you'd maybe even like to keep around forever, the colors morph into something completely different, and there's no getting back to that first pattern. No matter how much you'd like to see it again.” - Holly Schindler

106. “Change is inevitable, they say. Struggle is optional.” - Bailey Cates

107. “I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me.” - C. JoyBell C.

108. “It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...” - Ellen Hopkins

109. “Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.” - Randy Alcorn

110. “You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?” - Isaac Marion

111. “When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.” - Moazzam Shaikh

112. “When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment” - Pema Chodron

113. “He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn't be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine because Nathan was here and had helped me to realize that I was still Ramsey, no matter how much things had changed.” - Markelle Grabo

114. “Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.” - Erin Morgenstern

115. “Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!” - Eliezer Yudkowsky

116. “Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.” - Julia Green

117. “The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

118. “They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don’t have to prove anything to me.” - Alina Klein

119. “The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now.” - John Kuypers

120. “In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time.” - Nahoko Uehashi

121. “The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.” - Kevin Brockmeier

122. “Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.” - Rivera Sun

123. “The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.” - Douglas B. Reeves

124. “To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.” - Samuel Beckett

125. “I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.” - David Millar

126. “Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.” - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

127. “There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try.” - Michelle Madow

128. “Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.” - Cassandra Clare

129. “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Nelson Mandela

130. “As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,including our legal ways of distributing income and allowing people to own things, are natural, like the weather. They are not. Because they exist everywhere in our little world, we take it for granted that they have always existed and must always exist, and that they are self-acting. That is a dangerous mistake. They are in fact transient makeshifts; and many of them would not be obeyed, even by well-meaning people, if there were not a policeman within call and a prison within reach. They are being changed continually by Parliament, because we are never satisfied with them.... At the elections some candidates get votes by promising to make new laws or to get rid of old ones, and others by promising to keep things just as they are. This is impossible. Things will not stay as they are.Changes that nobody ever believed possible take place in a few generations. Children nowadays think that spending nine years in school, oldage and widows’ pensions, votes for women, and short-skirted ladies in Parliament or pleading in barristers’ wigs in the courts are part of the order of Nature, and always were and ever shall be; but their great-grandmothers would have set down anyone who told them that such things were coming as mad, and anyone who wanted them to come as wicked.” - George Bernard Shaw

131. “There is never only one, of anyone” - Margaret Atwood

132. “A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!” - Evinda Lepins

133. “We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

134. “Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

135. “I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.” - Lauren Oliver

136. “As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.” - Victor Hugo

137. “I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough.” - Ruth Humleker

138. “A person doesn't feel, then act; rather, he acts, then feels. Change actions to change feelings.” - Orrin Woodward

139. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” - Shannon L. Alder

140. “You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.” - Curtis Sittenfeld

141. “As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

142. “Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.” - E. Annie Proulx

143. “Turn towards love, and become love.” - Bryant McGill

144. “Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.” - Theodore Roosevelt