CURATED COLLECTION

Embracing Change

The things we cling to are often the things that are keeping us stuck — on learning to move with life.

32 quotes found

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor HugoPoet, Novelist & Dramatist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Humanity is a multi‑planet species. That’s the future I want to believe in.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Children are the inverse of history. They're the future.

—Valeria LuiselliAuthor & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Latin America

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The past holds lessons, but the future holds promise.

—Seydou Badian KouyatéPlaywright, Novelist & Politician

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The day may be distant, but it will surely come, when no human being will be held in bondage to another.

—Susan B. AnthonyReformer

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The spring has come, and my heart feels like a bird ready to fly.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Hope is not the conviction that things will go well, but that they are worth doing.

—Václav HavelPlaywright, Essayist & President

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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The future of the Māori people lies in adapting, yet retaining their culture.

—Māui PōmareDoctor & Politician

Early Modern ERA • Oceania

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Change is difficult and change is what also creates opportunity.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas JeffersonPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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We need a radical imagination to envision a different world.

—Saidiya HartmanScholar & Author

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

—Desiderius ErasmusScholar

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Hope is a fragile bird, but its song can shatter stone.

—Marjorie AgosínPoet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Art exists to transform what reality has left incomplete.

—Werewere LikingPlaywright, Novelist & Artist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

—Martin Luther King Jr.Activist & Minister

Post-War ERA • North America

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Not in my time, perhaps, but in the time of my children.

—James BaldwinNovelist, Essayist & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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