This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T-cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same change happens automatically. The truth is 'Love heals.'" - Bernie S. Siegel
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"There is a constant relation between the state of the universe at any instant and the rate of change in the rate at which any part of the universe is changing at that instant, and this relation is man-one, i.e., such that the rate of change in the rate of change is determinate when the state of the universe I given. If the ‘law of causality’ is to be something actually discoverable in the practice of science, the above proposition has a better right to the name than any ‘law of causality’ to be found in the books of philosophers." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indisputable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." - Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
"Your sorrow is for nothing. The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead. There never was a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be... That Reality which pervades the universe is indestructible. No one has power to change the Changeless... Death is certain for the born. Rebirth is certain for the dead. You should not grieve for what is unavoidable." - Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
"Time cures sorrows and squabbles because we all change, and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended is the same." - Blaise Pascal
"Time cures sorrows and squabbles because we all change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended is the same." - Blaise Pascal
"Change is inevitable but perpetual growth is a choice." - Bob Proctor
"Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who of all beings the most subject to change." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change, and even to change if it recur not too quickly." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The wisest man may be wiser today than he was yesterday, and tomorrow than he is today. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untraveled minds." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Nothing the Great Mystery placed in the land of the Indian pleased the white man, and nothing escaped his transforming hand. Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to him is an “unbroken wilderness.” But, because for the Lakota there was no wilderness, because nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly, Lakota philosophy was healthy - free from fear and dogmatism. And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surrounding; the other sought the dominance of surrounding. In sharing, in loving all and everything, one people naturally found a due portion of the thing they sought, while, in fearing, the other found need of conquest. For one man the world was full of beauty; for the other it was a place of sin and ugliness to be endured until he went to another world, there to become a creature of wings, half-man and half-bird. Forever one man directed his Mystery to change the world He had made; forever this man pleaded with Him to chastise the wicked ones; and forever he implored his God to send His light to earth. Small wonder this man could not understand the other. But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, become hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence." -
"There is no death, only a change of worlds" - Chief Seattle, also spelled Seathl
"If we don’t change the direction we’re going, we’re likely to end up where we’re headed." - Chinese Proverbs
"When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable." - Chuang Tzu, also spelled Chuang-tsze, Chuang Chou, Zhuangzi, Zhuang Tze, Zhuang Zhou, Chuang Tsu, Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse, or Chuangtze
"The Master said... 'Have no friends not equal to yourself'....The Master said, 'The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort'... The Master said, 'It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.'... Being true to oneself is the law of God. To try to be true to oneself is the law of man." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"Only the very wisest and the very stupidest (of men) never change." - Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
"Keep your mind open to change at all time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress." - Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
"Once we change our expectations about ourselves, other people, and the world - not just pretend to change the, but actually change them, we can change the shape of our life." - Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
"A change of meaning is necessary to change this world politically, economically and socially. But that change must begin with the individual; it must change for him... if meaning is a key part of reality, then, once society, the individual and relationships are seen to mean something different a fundamental change has taken place." -
"Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us." - David Riesman
"Spiritual truth is truth in whatever age, but the tasks of its service change as society changes." - Dorothy Thompson
"It is as common for men to change their taste as it is uncommon for them to change their inclination." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"It is as ordinary to see a man change his tastes as it is extraordinary to see him change his inclinations." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation." - Edmund Burke
"If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate." - Edmund Burke
"The key to patience is knowing that everything is going to be fine, developing the faith that there is a plan… The first step to becoming more patient is giving up the need to fix or change things." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"There is no part of you that is indefinable and changeless, that does not get lost or change with age, disease, or circumstances." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward." - Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being." - Emma Goldman
"It could be that human nature is stubbornly resistant to drastic change. Hence the fact that they who set their hearts on realizing revolutionary changes are as a rule hostile to human nature; they become antihuman, so to speak. They will do all they can to turn men into soulless material." - Eric Hoffer
"The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; It should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution." - Eric Hoffer
"In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"The differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change." - Eric Hoffer
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
"We won't believe the world can change until we experience ourselves changing. There's only one way to change yourself: risk... We have to risk being wrong, and we have to risk being lonely." - Frances Moore Lappé
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one." - Francis Bacon
"Deep ecology is supported by modern science... but it is rooted in a perception of reality that goes beyond the scientific framework to an intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation. When the concept of the human spirit is understood in this sense, as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is truly spiritual." - Fritjof Capra
"Evolution needs synthesis, the ecological perspective, and the holistic outlook so that life continues to be possible. That change from the old viewpoint, dividing up the world into smaller parts, towards a holistic attitude is biologically conditioned." - Fritjof Capra
"What we need... is a new “paradigm” - a new vision of reality; a fundamental change in our thoughts, perceptions, and values. The beginnings of this change, of the shift from the mechanistic to the holistic conception of reality, are already visible in all fields and are likely to dominate the present decade." - Fritjof Capra
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." - Galileo Galilei, known simply as Galileo
"Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw