Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

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"Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it."
David Foster Wallace
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"We are required to change our conception of the world."
Saul Bellow
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"There is always time to change your mind."
Saul Bellow
"The road once taken cannot be retraced. You cannot step in the same river twice."
Cormac McCarthy
"The only truth is change."
Philip Roth
"The real problem is that the world is changing so fast that people are always adjusting to the new world rather than understanding it."
Carson McCullers
"Change is inevitable, but growth is a choice we must make daily."
Carson McCullers
"We are all capable of transformation if we choose to examine ourselves."
Carson McCullers
"We grow not from comfort but from the willingness to be uncomfortable."
Carson McCullers
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"Grace changes us and the change is painful."
Flannery O'Connor
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"Change is the only constant that brings growth."
Eudora Welty
"Change is the only constant, and resistance to it is the only constant failure."
Cormac McCarthy
"The parts of me that used to think I was different are gone now."
David Foster Wallace
"The future is just more of the present until you decide differently."
David Foster Wallace
"Real change requires admitting that everything is already different."
David Foster Wallace
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"When you're a child, you don't know how you or I will grow up to be."
Harper Lee
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"All kinds of folderol coming into our town and upsetting the people."
Harper Lee
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"We are the first generation to see our children live in a world we don't understand."
Saul Bellow
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"To change the world, you must first change yourself."
Norman Mailer
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"Every moment is an opportunity to become who you wish to be."
Norman Mailer
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"The world is changed by those who dare to be different."
Norman Mailer
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Joseph Heller
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"Change is inevitable, resistance is futile."
Joseph Heller
"You can't go back. All you can do is move forward."
Cormac McCarthy
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"Change is the only constant, yet we spend our lives resisting it."
Saul Bellow
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"Change comes to those who stop waiting for it."
Joseph Heller
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"Change is constant, but growth is a choice."
Joseph Heller
"What we resist, we strengthen; what we accept, we transform."
Philip Roth
"To grow is to be willing to be wrong repeatedly."
Philip Roth
"The self is always in the process of becoming."
Philip Roth