“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

“Categories of understanding along with everything else alter as societies change.”

William H. McNeill (1917–2016) Canadian historian

“Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

“For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

“How you see me has nothing to do with me, it has everything to do with you.”

Ralph Smart

“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

“Sometimes,' Jem said, 'our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel