Change Quotes

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

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"Change is what remains constant in human affairs."
Norman Mailer
"The demands of the present are so great that one dare not think of the future."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Our little children are talking about moving to the cities."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The essential is to change."
William S. Burroughs
"Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it."
David Foster Wallace
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"What do you do when you realize you're living the wrong life?"
Saul Bellow
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"The present time is full of new problems which require new solutions."
Saul Bellow
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"I think I'd find it easier to turn myself into a butterfly than to understand the modern world."
Joseph Heller
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"The only constant in life is that everything changes."
Joseph Heller
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, but the one most responsive to change."
Norman Mailer
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
Norman Mailer
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"When you stop growing you start dying."
William S. Burroughs
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change."
William S. Burroughs
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"Change is the only constant I trust."
William S. Burroughs
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"Everybody's mind must be changed or we die"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Youth culture speaks in a higher language"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Change is inevitable"
Allen Ginsberg
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"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was."
Jack Kerouac
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"Goodbye blue Monday."
Jack Kerouac
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"I'm going to get out of Denver and start all over again."
Jack Kerouac
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"The only way to survive is to adapt; the only way to thrive is to innovate."
Joseph Heller
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"When you stop growing, you start dying."
William S. Burroughs
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"The more you run from your past, the faster it chases you."
William S. Burroughs
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"Nothing is permanent."
William S. Burroughs
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"Change is the only constant."
William S. Burroughs
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"One must learn to accept that one's past is part of one's present."
Norman Mailer
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"Change is the only constant, and resistance to it is resistance to life itself."
Norman Mailer
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"Change is the evidence that we are still alive and growing."
Norman Mailer
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"I'm in a rut."
J.D. Salinger
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"That's the thing about growing up, you lose things as you gain things."
J.D. Salinger