John Steinbeck Quotes

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

The sun is new each day.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I believe change is the only constant in life, and there is a place and time for everything.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

With time, everything changes, and there is nothing wrong in that.

Everything has a cycle and a season.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.