Louise Erdrich Quotes

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Life is a work in progress.

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

When you are through changing, you are through.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Life is a lively process of becoming.