Yehuda Amichai Quotes

Some people will never change.

Nobody wants to change.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such," Aphrodite said. "I'll go talk to flowers," Stevie Rae said.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.