If one thing is true in this world, it is that nothing stays the same for too long.
Seasons change. You change your clothes. Michael Jackson’s skin color changed. Everything is in constant flux.
Whether you’re retiring, breaking up, or just moving on, here are the best quotes about change that we could find.
All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. Octavia E. Butler
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Frida Kahlo
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. William James
When you are through changing, you are through. Bruce Barton
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
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. Anatole France
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henry Bergson
What I like most about change is that it’s a synonym for ‘hope’. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, ‘I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.’ Linda Ellerbee
‘Oh’, she thought, ‘how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!’ L.M. Montgomery
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley
Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. Mandy Hale
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the vases. Haruki Murakami
Change always comes bearing gifts. Price Pritchett
I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything. Nicholas Sparks
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter F. Drucker
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Unknown
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. John Porter
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson
When in doubt, choose change. Lily Leung
How can you know what you are capable of if you don’t embrace the unknown? Esmeralda Santiago
Change, like healing, takes time. Veronica Roth
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. Paulo Coelho
Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the times it’s both. Unknown
Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. John A. Simone, Sr.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. Spanish Proverb
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance. Deepak Chopra
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. Libba Bray
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. C. JoyBell C.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. Pauline R. Kezer
Nothing is permanent, but change. Heraclitus
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller
Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. Irene Peter
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. C.S. Lewis
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. Maya Angelou
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
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. Joan Wallach Scott
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. Madonna
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford
You change for two reasons: either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to. Unknown