quotes about change and moving on

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you ~Bennett Cerf



The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith



Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound



Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ~Pliny the Younger



Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown



Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley



Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~Author Unknown



We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ~Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888



However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau



Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Leon Blum



To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ~Beverly Nichols



How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo



I'll be the in to your sane. ~Numan



It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770



What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ~Cicero



The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. ~Aristotle, Politics