Change Is The Only Constant Quotes

“We assimilate a little this way, and a little that way. Life is only mutation.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces

“If you think about it all the successful people you know have 5 things in common:
1) They are focused
2) They are relentless
3) They are resourceful
4) They are flexible 
5) They are constantly reinventing themselves - evolving, learning and growing

If you think about it all of the unsuccessful people you know have 5 things in common:
1) They are lazy
2) They complain, A LOT
3) They tend to blame everyone else for their situation
4) They are set in their ways
5) They know it all”
― Germany Kent

“I am the daughter of a mother who would never change...The refusal to modify her aspect, her habits, her attitudes was strategy for resisting American culture, for fighting it, for maintaining her identity...When my mother returns to Calcutta, she is proud of the fact that, in spite of almost fifty years away from India, she seems like a woman who never left.

I am the opposite. While the refusal to change was my mother's rebellion, the insistence on transforming myself is mine...All my life I've tried to get away from the void of my origin. It was the void that distressed me, that I was fleeing...Writing, I discovered a way of hiding in my characters, of escaping myself. Of undergoing one mutation after another.

One could say that the mechanisms of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, at times subtle, at times deep, without which we would stand still. The moments of transitions in which something changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“Tell me, O' Lovely Autumn,
how to wilt and change. Come, show me
how to smile, while I say goodbye.

(Haiku)”
― Monika Ajay Kaul