Quotes About Change

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

She was meaning and order and light, and now that she's gone, chaos falls like a dark leaden cloud.

If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.

it wasn't so much like the hands of time had stood still here, more like they'd been thrown in the air in exasperation, the clock declaring whatever! I'm outta here.

Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. —GERARD RYDER

Pain travels pretty well.

Losers can only flourish until a dominant species appears

They are between. Not what they used to be, and not what they have become. In those times, they are nothing. And I am invisible, and I am nothing too. That is the true demimonde, Lucien, and the secret is, it is not always desperate and dark. Sometimes it is just nothing. No burden of potential or regret. There are worse things than being nothing, my friend.

Evolution doesn't really have a destination. It's just dicking around with possibilities.

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey

I didn't do anything. I didn't move a thing, I didn't touch a thing, I didn't change a thing. Believers do everything.

Have you people forgotten how to die? Or have you used up all of the young people on television so there's nothing left but gray hair and wrinkled flesh? In my time, if you had seen forty summers it was time to start thinking about moving on, making room for the youngsters.

She changed your oil and put the chill on you all in one night?

How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend?

He noticed some flowers growing where Joshua had just relieved himself. Lush blossoms of a half-dozen vibrant colors stood surrounded by the deadest landscape on the planet. "Hey, were those there yesterday?" "That always happens," I said. "We don't talk about it.

Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, "There's no such thing as a conservative hero.

You lie, it takes forty years to get to Egypt." "Not anymore, it's closer now.

chaos is the condition between order and disorder, the transition between one system and another.

Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug.

Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain