Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

My life has been about big changes.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

You have to keep recycling yourself.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

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

I believe that change keeps you young.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I want to change a lot.