Quotes About Change

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

The great god Pan is dead.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one?

It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.

So reason makes all sorts of life easy, and every change pleasant. Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do not you think it a matter worthy of lamentation, that, when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one? But Crates with only his scrip and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

No necesito amigos que cambien cuando yo cambio y asientan cuando yo asiento. Mi sombra lo hace mucho mejor.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

They make the money cheap to borrow, and then that debt turns the borrower into a weapon against change. As long as the world doesn't change, the bonds are paid off.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.

More worship the rising than the setting sun.

What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself—the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle