Quotes About Change

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change. The Sunborn

It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Remembering a narrative alters it.

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad.

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

Not all engagement with our past is characterized by crisis.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Elvis stopped threatening—not only girls, but the whole of the social order—and began pleading.

Punk was just a single, venomous one-syllable, two-syllable phrase of anger—which was necessary to reignite rock & roll. But sooner or later, someone was going to want to say more than fuck you.

For thirty years you couldn't possibly make it unless you were white, sleek, nicely spoken, and phony to your toenails—suddenly now you could be black, purple, moronic, delinquent, diseased, or almost anything on earth, and you could still clean up.

The climate is not going to collapse because some party got the most votes. The politics that's needed to prevent the climate catastrophe—it doesn't exist today. We need to change the system, as if we were in crisis, as if there were a war going on."

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.