Quotes About Change

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

we, who have always thought of joy as rising . . . feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.

In the past perhaps I would have declined, but I now recalled the Poet's dictum—"To stay is to be nowhere"—and I was happy to accept.

The old loyalties of India, the ancient ones – they'd been destroyed long ago; the British had built their Empire by effacing them.

When I look into my past the river seems to meet my eyes, staring back, as if to ask, Do you recognize me, wherever you are? Recognition

assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.

Memory deludes me. I have just remembered something that I completely forgot after it happened. I remembered it again when I was about sixteen, and then I forgot it again. And this morning I remembered not the event itself but the previous recollection, which itself was more than forty years ago, as though an old moon were reflected in a windowpane from which it was reflected in a lake, from where memory draws not the reflection itself, which no longer exists, but only its whitened bones.

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

Traición no es lo contrario de amor; es una de sus opciones. Traidor –creo– es quien cambia a ojos de aquellos que no pueden cambiar y no cambiarán, aquellos que odian cambiar y no pueden concebir el cambio, a pesar de que siempre quieran cambiarle a uno. En otras palabras, traidor, a ojos del fanático, es cualquiera que cambia. Y es dura la elección entre convertirse en un fanático o convertirse en un traidor.

lo que ocurre ahora es que todo el mundo en este país exclama El rey está desnudo y quizás por eso el niño deba encontrar un grito nuevo

De waarheid is dat alle macht ter wereld een vijand niet in een vriend kan veranderen. Hij kan een vijand in een slaaf veranderen, maar niet in een kameraad. Met alle macht kun je een fanaticus niet veranderen in een tolerant iemand. En met alle macht ter wereld kun je een wraakzuchtige niet veranderen in een vriend.

You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.

Once, when I was seven or eight, my mother said to me, as we sat on the last seat but one on the bus to the clinic or the shoe shop, that while it was true that books could change with the years just as much as people could, the difference was that whereas people would always drop you when they could no longer get any advantage or pleasure or interest or at least a good feeling from you, a book would never abandon you.

Há boas e más novas no café. A má, é que o tempo corre. A boa, é que o tempo cura.

Kad su moji prijatelji otkrili da se družimo, po?eli su me nazivati izdajnikom. Nakon mnogo dana polako sam pronašao utjehu u misli da je izdajnik u o?ima fanatika onaj koji se usu?uje promijeniti. Svaka vrsta fanatizma, u svako vrijeme i na svakome mjestu, izražava gnušanje prema promjeni, strahuje od nje te sumnji?avo vidi promjenu zapravo kao izdaju koja izvire iz mra?nih i podlih pobuda.

Curiosity and imagination are bound together. The age-old human urge to peek behind other people's drawn shutters, the eagerness to compare one's own intimate secrets with the secret intimacy of others, is an urge that may serve as an antidote to the fanatic's lust to murder the difference between himself and others. Or to kill anyone who refuses to change and declines to be exactly like him.

So the man was sad! Of course, he was in mourning. He had just lost his wife, what — a few months ago? What a luxury, she thought enviously, that he could mourn his loss like this when her husband had disappeared. She would have liked to give up on life and cry until she was empty of tears; instead she had to brave a refugee camp, a new country, and now a whole new language.

Amulya Malladi

Love goes where it will, and the attempt to redirect it actually corrupts it.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. Those are people who crossed an ocean to come to this country.

I like radio personalities, and I like to change lanes. And losing yourself on the freeway is like living at the beach--you're not aware of lapsed time, and suddenly you're there, where it was you were going.

A famous artist is approached by a student. You don't remember me, the student says correctly, but years ago you said something that changed my life. You said, 'Photography is death.' After that, says the student, I threw out my camera. I began again. I want to thank you for changing my life. Leave me alone, says the artist. Photography is life.