Quotes About Change

whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.

And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

How hard it is to hate a person you've once loved.

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

Women's Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations That Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential.

You have built here what you, or anyone else, might have built anywhere; to do so you have destroyed what was unique in the world.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off.

Anything that takes us out of our comfort zones for a while can act as a reminder that the past we are used to may not be our best future.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

This life is a hospital, where each patient is possessed by a desire to change beds.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.