George Santayana

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

William Allen White

“Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.”

- William Allen White, author and newspaper editor

Oasis

"While we're living
The dreams we have as children fade away"

- Oasis, 'Fade Away'

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

Norman Vincent Peale

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author

Steve Jobs

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs, inventor and entrepreneur (co-founder of Apple Inc.)

Alexander Pope

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Alexander Pope, poet

Lewis Carroll

"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll, author

Iris Murdoch

"Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

- Iris Murdoch, author and philosopher

Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."

- 'Of Human Bondage' by W. Somerset Maugham

J. K. Rowling

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Bill Vaughan

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

- Bill Vaughan, columnist and author

Heraclitus

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus, ancient Greek philosopher

Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change; we change."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, developmental critic

Jennifer Johnston

"It is what brushes off against us after we are born that makes us what we are."

- 'How Many Miles To Babylon?' by Jennifer Johnston

Sue Monk Kidd

"'We can't think of changing our skin,' he said. 'Change the world - that's how we gotta think.'"

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”

- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author