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The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

The world is changing and so is fashion.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

This moment - the one you're experiencing right now - is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.