Quotes About Change

Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.

La mia biblioteca è una sorta di autobiografia. Nel proliferare degli scaffali vi è un libro per ogni istante della mia vita, per ogni amicizia, per ogni delusione, per ogni cambiamento. Segnano i miei anni come le pietre bianche che indicano la strada di un pellegrino.

She thinks, The boy has issues. He's no longer a surly, grumpy, malicious adolescent, rude to his elders, "fat, and scant of breath." Now he's a surly, grumpy, malicious adult, rude to his elders, "fat, and scant of breath." As a mother she finds this hard to admit, but she thinks her son is not quite right in the head. As a boy he played with imaginary friends; now he sees ghosts and dreams of dark plots and weird conspiracies.

Hier in Buenos Aires träume ich auf Spanisch von Menschen, die nicht sprechen und mich nicht hören - und immer von der Stadt, wie ich sie früher kannte, niemals, wie sie heute ist.

Sentì le giornate gelide o soffocanti - il sole che ti riscalda troppo, interrotto da un colpo di vento che ti rinfresca troppo. Solo chi ci viene in vacanza può credere che qui il clima sia dolce. Se così fosse, anche la gente lo sarebbe. Invece sono maledettamente lunatici - cambiano d'umore bruscamente, per la nuvola d'una frase o di una diffidenza.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Ending is better than mending.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now But God doesn't change Men do though

O brave new world that has such people in it.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

The problems raised by alcohol and tobacco cannot, it goes without saying, be solved by prohibition. The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the currently popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old bad habits for new and less harmful ones.

But if you know about God, why don't you tell them?' asked the Savage indignantly. 'Why don't you give them these books about God?' 'For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.' 'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' All the difference in the world,' said Mustapha Mond.

Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.