Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Change | Man | Nature | Wisdom | Afraid |

Henry Major Tomlinson

The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world. And that is our hope.

Change | Character | Hope | Wisdom | World | Think |

Aleyn NULL

The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he is slain.

Change | Kill | Kindness | Wisdom |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Change | Nature | Nothing | Wisdom |

Arnold Bennett, fully Enoch Thomas Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Better | Change | Wisdom |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

We look at change but we do not see it. We speak of change, but we do not think about it. We say that change exists, that everything changes, that change is the very law of things: yes, we say it and we repeat it; but those are only words, and we reason and philosophize as though change did not exist.

Change | Law | Reason | Wisdom | Words | Think |

R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

We are to live with life and die with death, not separated from them. The problem of suffering is insoluble, because we think of ourselves as apart from pain and death, in opposition to them. We can be free from change only by changing with it.

Change | Death | Life | Life | Opposition | Pain | Suffering | Wisdom | Think |

Henry Bolingbroke, Henry IV of England

The confirmed prejudices of the thoughtful life, are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as most must trifle away age, because they trifled away youth, others must labor on the maze of error, because they have wandered there too long to find their way.

Age | Change | Error | Labor | Life | Life | Wisdom | Youth |

Mark Caine

The success always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Change | Life | Life | Looks | Success | Wisdom |

James Burke

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

Change | Wisdom |

Robert Conkin, aka Bob Conkin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Change | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John Dewey

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

Change | Intelligence | Wisdom |

India Edwards

The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life.

Change | Children | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Recreation | Success | Time | Will | Wisdom |

David Elkind

Today's child has become the unwilling, unintended victim of overwhelming stress --the stress bound of rapid, bewildering social change and constantly rising expectations.

Change | Wisdom | Child | Victim |

Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries.

Change | Life | Life | People | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Change | Circumstances | Heart | Joy | Wisdom |