Quotes About Change

What had once been life's quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment—now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.

The coo of a single dove had changed everything.

Bagi generasi muda, perubahan itu terlalu lambat Bagi kaum tradisionalis tua, perubahan itu menghujat

Uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something in a totally new light.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.

Well, the meek were supposed to inherit the earth, but instead it has gone to the young—the technically inclined, those who stare into video screens rather than into their own souls.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our pas

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths... In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond refusing to flip into deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most --- our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. - Robert Langdon

that read IN THIS PLACE, ON THIS DATE, THE WORLD WAS CHANGED FOREVER. The plaque was signed: BERTRAND ZOBRIST. The date was tomorrow.

Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.

We evolved from apes and we're going extinct.

Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.

But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

We are now perched on a strange cusp of history," Edmond continued, "a time when the world feels like it's been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

the human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change

He turned now to his left

I call it 'Prayer for the Future'. Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it.

Debemos estar dispuestos a renunciar a la vida que hemos planeado para poder disfrutar de la vida que nos espera. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Entropy is just a fancy way of saying: things fall apart.