Quotes About Change

hayat bir olma sürecidir, içinden geçmemiz gereken süreçlerin bir kombinasyonudur. insanlar?n burada baÅŸar?s?z olduklar? nokta; bir durum, kendilerine bir hal seçip orada kalmak istemeleridir. bu bir nevi ölümdür.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

In chaos, there is fertility.

Stories do not end.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

We are not meant always to be happy, and who would want to be? Happiness would become meaningless if it were a constant state. If you accept that, then you will not be surprised when something bad occurs, you will not gnash your teeth and ask, Why me? Why has this happened to me? It has happened to you because that is the nature of things. No one escapes. The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, rejoice when it returns.

If you needed anything, all you had to do was say, 'Mom, I need this,' and my mom would be at my house with it," she says, crying. "And now it's like, if I need something, who do I call?

Does one ever know what another person is really like, even someone very close to us? Do we know what we are like ourselves? What we are today may not be what we are tomorrow.

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

Does one ever know what another person is really like, even someone very close to us? Do we know what we are like ourselves? What we are today may not be what we are tomorrow. I

A word and everything is saved. A word and all is lost.

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.

Ne désire jamais, Nathanaël, regoûter les eaux du passé...Ne cherche pas, dans l'avenir, à retrouver jamais le passé. Saisis de chaque instant la nouveauté irressemblable et ne prépare pas tes joies, ou sache qu'en son lieu préparé te surprendra une joie autre.

Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap...

the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had once upon a time been juicy with sap and alive in the sun.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

Moi qui d'abord ne trouvais de goût qu'au passé, la subite saveur de l'instant m'a pu griser un jour, pensai-je, mais le futur désenchante l'heure présente, plus encore que le présent ne désenchanta le passé...

Pour grandir, il faut porter loin de soi ses regards.Et puis ne regarder pas trop en arrière

L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit.