"To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."

Change, Identity, Self, Transformation

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"To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."

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"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Edward de Bono, English Psychologist

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"Wilted or in bloom,taking or lending daylight,the world transitions."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Change, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Happiness

"Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time."

Darren L. Johnson, American Author

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"Everything changes but change itself."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Change, Self, World, Perspective

"Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

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Explore more quotes by Samuel Beckett

"Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted."

Philosophy, Solitude, Life, Observation, Reflection

"In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point."

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"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."

Philosophy, Existence, Time, Mortality

"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."

Awareness, Observation, Attention, Perception, Interaction

"You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade."

Mindfulness, Connection, Nature, Observation, Affection

"I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments."

Mindfulness, Observation, Presence, Moment, Reflection

"The more people I meet the happier I become."

Happiness, Social, Observation, Gratitude

"But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream."

Consciousness, Pain, Wonder, Existence, Reflection

"We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?"

Philosophy, Existence, Thought, Meaning

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

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