Quotes About Change

Si aad u hesho wax aaney qayrkaa heli doonin mustaqbalka, samee wax ka duwan waxa ay sameeyaan.

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

We throw ourselves into the journey and when it's done, even while having learned that all experience involves the loss of something beloved, what is ledt in the residue of memory is love.

It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism. Nor is it the present colonial society that we wish to prolong, the most putrid carrion that ever rotted under the sun. It is a new society that we must create.

There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

It is not a dead society that we want to revive. We leave that to those who go in for exoticism.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis, I decided as I made my way up the dirt path in the pouring rain.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful

I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.

You cannot step into the same river twice. Maybe that's because rivers, like people, are constantly changing

Not all traditions hold up over time.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Where we once had fear we now have courage, because we have been given knowledge.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

Anyone with two eyes and a pair of binoculars could see that you stopped going inside soon after you moved to town.)

I was still very much a kid but, suddenly, I had the body of a teenager. This is like waking up one day and finding out that your golden retriever puppy shoots lasers from its adorable puppy eyes. Someone is bound to get hurt.

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.

To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is a delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering.

Notice the word 'noble' in noble truth. This is a truth to be realized. We are not told to grasp or believe this truth; it isn't a belief; it isn't a dogma; it isn't a metaphysical truth; it isn't the ultimate reality. It is a very common human experience of loss, identifying with that which is unsatisfactory, with change, with the delusions we create, and the expectations and assumptions we make about our lives.