Andre Gide Quotes

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Everything gradually comes to an end or there's a new challenge around the corner.

I believe there is a time for everything. Time changes, and you need to accept that. Else, you stagnate.

I take every season as it being different.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.