Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

Times change; people change.

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

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

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.

One never gets the same summer twice.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

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

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

Different time, different place,” I said. “Things can change. People can change.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe it’s going to change.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.