Quotes About Change

But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively, and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...) Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.

Così una pagina lentamente si volta, si distende dalla parte opposta, aggiungendosi alle altre già finite, per ora è solamente uno strato sottile, quelle che rimangono da leggere sono in confronto un mucchio inesauribile. Ma è pur sempre un'altra pagina consumata, signor tenente, una porzione di vita.

Muhakkak farkl? birÅŸeyler olagelmeli,öyle bir ÅŸey ki insan:Art?k sonuna gelmiÅŸ olsam bile beklemeye deÄŸmiÅŸ diyebilmeli.

A una certa età tutti voi, uomini, cambiate. Non rimane più niente di quello che eravate da piccoli. Diventate irriconoscibili. Anche tu colonnello, un giorno, dovevi essere diverso...

This life looked like being a wash-out, so I pinned my hopes to the next.

Complacency serves the old gods.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

the future doesn't care what you wish.

I always say, either take the steps to lose the weight you keep threatening to lose, or love the way you are.

I realize now that the reason we often feel so bad about change is because of all those beautiful things that happen in our lives. I mean, I can't remember ever feeling sad about many things other than a great memory. I believe in contentment and love and laughter. I believe when we fear for our content it is then, most of all, we feel sadness.

Destiny and history are untidy.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible--it is a form of immortality

A Girl is gone! A Girl is lost! A simple Rustic Maiden but Yesterday swung upon the Pasture Gate, with Knowledge nowhere, yet is now, to-day, no better than her Mother, and her Mother's Mother before her! Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked! No purer than Fish in Sea, no sweater than Bird on Wing, no better than Beasts of Earth!

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

In Nora's heart lay the fossil of Robin, intaglio of her identity, and about it for its maintenance ran Nora's blood. Thus the body of Robin could never be unloved, corrupt or put away. Robin was now beyond timely changes, except in the blood that animated her.

Ich dachte (...) an die beiden alten Männer, die einander rasierten, während die Welt sich weiter drehte, denn schließlich und endlich wird das Männerhaar trotz Friedensvertrag und Kampf um die Vormacht in Irland weiterwachsen.

Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odri?em. Ja ho?u ceo, sav, prepunjen život, da menjam ovaj svet.

I naružila se zemlja od pogašenih ognjišta. Dve zore nikad na istom bivaku. Kad menjaš ognjište, i narav ti se menja. Kad tebi otimaju, i ti otimaš. Veruj mi, u zlu su svi ljudi zli.

When you really want change, reinforcement will come from your heart.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.