Quotes About Change

mundo cambia constantemente y no está regido por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Por el más insufrible, estúpido e inadmisible azar.

el principio de la infinita pérdida, el comienzo de ese imparable decaer que era el vivir.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

It occurred to her, sadly, and not for the first time, that as you grew older you became busier, and time went faster and faster, the months pushing each other rudely out of the way, and the years slipping off the calendar and into the past. Once, there had been time. Time to stand, or sit, and just look at daffodils. Or to abandon housekeeping, on the spur of the moment, walk out of the back door and up the hill, into the lark-song emptiness of a summer morning.

Life, for both of us, can never be the same as it was, but it can be different; and you have proved to me that it can be good.

And all at once it was as it had been before, on that gusty August day during the war, and she was twenty-three years old again, with holes in her sneakers, and Papa sitting beside her. And Richard walked in; into the gallery and into their lives. And Papa told him, They will come...to paint the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. And that was how it had all begun.

The past is another country, but the journey could be made.

And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.

Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards. Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories

I feel old and finished. I'm nearly thirty now.

Things only happen once. Do you ever think, Judith? It can be a bit the same, of course, but never quite the same

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards.

The past is another country.

Life is just a series of good-byes, isn't it? People move in and out of our lives, they go on to new places, sometimes they die.

Moss," she went on softly. "When Christ died on the cross, two men hung on either side of him. Both were criminals, outlaws. He loved them both. And one of them asked Christ to forgive him, minutes before he died. And he was forgiven. If a person wishes to change his life, then God does not hold that person to blame for things in his past. Someone such as I has no right condemning another human being, when Christ does not condemn. I want very much to keep the case, Moss." She

Adán marchaba llorando, y mirando para atrás un paraíso perdido que no va a recuperar, y Eva pensaba en la historia que acaba de empezar.

Tardó en darse cuenta. ¿Cómo iba a advertir el paso del tiempo si su transcurso no le había dejado nada?

Será que nuestra historia es tan peligrosa que puede llegar a ser revolucionaria?

Los puertorriqueños estaban acostumbrados a transitar de isla en isla y de continente en continente como aves cuya condición natural era tránsito.

One mistake can cause everything or may I say someone special :-(

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.