Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

Things which do not grow and change 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.

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.

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.

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

When you are through changing, you are through.

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

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.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Change is not always progress.

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

I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'

I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.

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

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

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

Either things grow and change or they die.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

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.