Paul Simon Quotes

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Your problems never cease. They just change.

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

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.