Sam Levenson Quotes

Our children will be as wise as we are and will establish in the fullness of time those things not yet ripe for establishment

The past does not equal the future.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

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

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.

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

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.