Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

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.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

My life has been about big changes.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Times change; people change.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

I believe that change is the essence of life.

A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.