Echoes

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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

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

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

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

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

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

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

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

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.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you'll be able to use them better when you're older.

While I breathe, I hope.