Echoes

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Born under another sky, placed in the middle of an always-moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which sweeps along everything that surrounds him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything; he grows accustomed to naught but change, and concludes by viewing it as the natural state of man; he feels a need for it; even more, he loves it: for instability, instead of occurring to him in the form of disasters, seems to give birth to nothing around him but wonders...

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.

Accept everything just the way it is.