Quotes About Change

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Source?

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

La paix universelle se réalisera un jour non parce que les hommes deviendront meilleurs mais parce qu'un nouvel ordre, une science nouvelle, de nouvelles nécessités économiques leur imposeront l'état pacifique.

In every household the Revolution had emptied the cooking-pot.

Qu'est-ce que veut dire voyager? Changer de lieu? Pas du tout! En voyageant, on change aussi ses opinions et ses préjugés.

The French having passed from feudalism to monarchy, and from monarchy to a financial oligarchy, will easily pass from a financial oligarchy to anarchy.

The trouble of living a long time is not that one lasts too long, but that one sees all about him pass away- mother, wife, friends, children. Nature makes and unmakes all these divine treasures with gloomy indifference, and at last, we find that we have not loved, we have only been embracing shadows.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

La utopía es el principio de todo progreso y el diseño de un futuro mejor.

Mas se tocarem nos conselhos de guerra – exclamou o senhor de Terremondre –, será o fim do Exército, será o fim do país! Monsieur Bergeret formulou esta resposta: — Quando os padres e os grão-senhores foram privados do direito de enforcar os vilões, acreditou-se que era o fim de tudo. Mas, depressa, viu-se nascer uma nova ordem, superior à antiga. Falo em submeter o soldado, no tempo de paz, ao direito comum.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

They had been pushed out of their comfort zone, and the muscles responded by getting strong enough to establish a new comfort zone. Homeostasis had been reestablished.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.