Quotes About Change

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

All tradition is merely the past.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

No matter what I did and where I went, the Cultural Revolution followed me.

Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her

He pointed me to a chair. "Making a clean break with your black family, that's good. We absolutely support you.

The sun had risen as usual, but nothing else about the day was the same as the day before.

Well, you know the old saying. 'The wheel of fate makes a full turn every sixty years,'" An Yi said. "It's their turn to suffer now.

Once my life had been defined by my goals: to be a da-dui-zhang, to participate in the exhibition, to be a Red Guard. They seemed unimportant to me now. Now my life was defined by my responsibilities. I had promised to take care of my family, and I would renew that promise every day. I

Now our chance had come. Destroying the fourolds was a new battle, and an important one: It would keep China from losing her Communist ideals. Though we were not facing real guns or real tanks, this battle would be even harder, because our enemies, the rotten ideas and customs we were so used to, were inside ourselves.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more.

Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.

All of a sudden, when I take my hair down, I don't look like a flower child anymore. I look like Loretta Lynn. This is not a good look—for Loretta or me.

You know how I used to joke that your mother had three thousand six hundred and twenty-two feelings and I had the requisite five basic ones which have an evolutionary purpose? Because, quite frankly, most of the time I didn't know what the bloody hell she was on about? Well, since coming round from surgery I'm finding myself having others, another . . . perhaps the sixth emotion.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.

Become an expert on your biggest competitor—the status quo.

We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. —Abraham Lincoln, 1862