You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.
I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.
