Quotes About Change

Tandis que son corps la lâche, Marie se souvient : "Je ne serai pas ta routine." Et Steph de rétorquer : "Je ne deviendrai jamais ton habitude.

Qué te pasa? -, y él - Nada, es que mi temperamento es difícil como un cambio de melodía de Ricardo Ray-

some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You're a thermostat. You don't register the temperature in a room, you change it.

Feeling depressed after a loss is one thing, but feeling depressed about nothing, about life in general, is another thing altogether. The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly

It might not be the right way to end our journey, but it's the best way possible

He tells me that for the past few years my mind has been a swamp- stagnant, fetid, seeping in every direction. Now it's time for my mind to be a river- raging, channeled, and therefore pure. p280

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we vow to change, even when we sorrow and atone for our mistakes, the momentum of our past keeps carrying us down the wrong road. Momentum rules the world.

Maybe they're confused because I don't tell them the full story, don't explain my full motivation. I can't, since I'm only slowly becoming aware of it myself. I play and keep playing because I choose to play. Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Quando abbiamo finito sono andato a fare una passeggiata da solo, fino alla collina che anni prima in un giorno di neve io e Guido avevamo risalito per contemplare il passaggio. Ho cercato il punto preciso in cui ci eravamo fermati e ho guardato in basso come avevamo fatto allora, ed era strano vedere una casa sola dove ce n'erano state due.

Magari uno rimpiange di aver perso qualcosa, e l'ha perso solo per trovare qualcosa di meglio.

La sua tendenza è sempre stata quella di saltare fuori in tempo dal conforto decrescente degli stati raggiunti, scappare verso le sorprese del nuovo o verso il vuoto rigenerante della solitudine, cancellare le nostalgie, ripartire da zero.

Mi chiedevo com'era possibile che le persone più vicine mi cambiassero davanti in modo così improvviso, senza che io avessi avuto nemmeno il tempo di capire che c'era una trasformazione nell'aria.

Quand'è che quello spirito ha cominciato a cambiare? Quando hanno cominciato a cambiare loro? O hanno semplicemente smesso di essere come avrebbero voluto essere, E sono tornate a essere come sono? A che punto il gioco dell'invenzione si è trasformato in sforzo di costruzione, impegno dopo impegno, vincolo dopo vincolo? Quand'è che la leggerezza si è trasformata in peso?

In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

CVAC Go Hanging Bags

Viste —dijo Marcos cuando salimos—. Llega al mundo con tremendo golpazo y a los pocos minutos está caminando. Ni se queja. Eso se llama recuperación. —O sea —lo miré—. ¿Vos decís que sería bueno ser jirafa? Se rio con la boca abierta y me palmeó la espalda. —Capaz que sí, Emita. Capaz que estaría bueno ser jirafa.