Change...what others have said about it.

Change has been a "hot topic" for centuries. Think about some of the changes our forefathers had to face...coming to America leaving everything and everyone they knew behind. Declaring independence and fighting a war to achieve that independence. Moving West and setting up a homestead. Well, just for fun here are some quotes that others have spoken regarding change.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~ Mary Engelbreit

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~ W. Edwards Deming

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ Anatole France

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~ Victor Frankl

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~ Henry Miller

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. ~ Washington Irving

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Growth is the only evidence of life.
~ John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
~ Marcel Proust

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~ Woodrow Wilson

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~ Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~ Pauline R. Kezer

Things do not change; we change. ~ Henry David Thoreau