Guy Finley Quotes

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Everyone changes all the time.

People do change.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

I want to change a lot.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

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

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

After awhile, you start realizing that change is good for you. It's healthy.

The dead can't change, but you can.

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

My life has been about big changes.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Life is change.

I believe that change is the essence of life.

We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and to pull out these things.

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.