Quotes About Change

People sometimes note the transient, ever-changing nature of the Web, but in fact the opposite is true. The Web is a gigantic tar pit that traps and fossilizes every electron that ventures within.

perfection was not only impossible, but the enemy of success. The real key was flexibility in the face of the unexpected, or, as someone once said, the "known unknowns.

God bless the disgruntled employee—no one does more to bring openness to government.

The Maya created a vibrant and brilliant society that, in the end, failed to adjust to a changing environment and the needs of its people;

The New World was like a vast, tinder-dry forest waiting to burn—and Columbus brought the fire.

Don't live in the past—you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over. No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

No, you don't destroy the rich—you do as Jesus did, and convert them.

they develop slowly, beneath the surface—like a subcutaneous abscess.

It's overstated, true, but what it really means is that the tiniest change in the initial conditions of a system can snowball into gigantic effects later on. Wallace

My country wedged fast in history stuck in the ice

The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over.

It's true, these last few years I've lived watching myself in the act of loss—the art of losing, Elizabeth Bishop called it, but for me no art only badly-done exercises acts of the heart forced to question its presumptions in this world its mere excitements acts of the body forced to measure all instincts against pain acts of parting trying to let go without giving up yes Elizabeth a city here a village there a sister, comrade, cat and more no art to this but anger

That light of outrage is the light of history

The moment of change is the only poem

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

Just as your lungs breathe in and then breathe out, it's necessary for things to fall away so that life can breathe new again. This is one of the laws of the universe: that everything you see, taste, touch, and feel will eventually disappear back into the source from which it came, only to be reborn and appear yet again, receding again back into the source..

I didn't make the calling happen, I couldn't pretend it didn't happen, and I couldn't have turned it off even if I'd wanted to. It was disconcerting. And sure enough, my intuition was true: the entire trajectory of my life had changed at that instant.

In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relationship to your experience.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.