Quotes About Change

Change appears to us mysterious because it is invisible. It is impossible to see a tree grow tall or a man grow old, except with the precarious imagination of hindsight. A tree is small, and later it is tall. A man is young, and later he is old. A people are at peace, and later they are at war. In each case, the intermediate states are at once infinitely many and infinitely complex, which is why they exceed our finite perceptions.

Have you noticed how normally this line is moving?

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Once upon a time, automobiles were central to romantic life. It was once estimated that almost 40 percent of marriages in America were proposed in automobiles. Today, a third of marriages result from meeting up online and through dating apps.

So often, over the history of the oil industry, it is said that technology has gone about as far as it can and that the "end of the road" for the oil industry is in sight. And then, new innovations dramatically expand capabilities. This pattern would be repeated again and again.

É vergonhoso confessar isso: mas eu tenho consciência sem ter força. Eu tenho olhos sem ter vontade. Algum dia eu devo pagar por essa minha covardia, mas hoje eu não me vejo brigando, discutindo ou forçando uma mudança. Também não me vejo fingindo aceitar o que está acontecendo.

Unfortunately, dogmatic, unchanging rules are drunken elephants in the house of crystal that is life.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to go to law school instead. It looked easier.

Mislila sam, kao što ljudi u teškim nevoljama misle, da ?e mi promena mesta pomo?i da zaboravim svoj bol, kao da svoju nesre?u ne nosimo U sebi.

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

If you don't like who you are, don't just change your behavior—change your thoughts.

Most of us have heard that it takes 21 days to change a habit. Unfortunately, many experts now believe that it takes 21 days for any change to begin to take place.