Quotes About Change

Is this what it means to become an adult? Giving up the beliefs which reassure us, which help us to survive?

Au début, la douleur était atroce, puis elle s'est dissipée. La douleur était comme un mur que j'avais franchi, passant de l'autre côté.

Ovidio ha scritto che il tempo distrugge le cose, ma si è sbagliato. Soltanto gli uomini distruggono le cose. E distruggono gli altri uomini. E distruggono il mondo degli uomini. Il tempo li guarda fare e disfare. E scorre indifferente.

En coupant du temps on en fabrique.

Het is zo moeilijk om de doden te doden. Hoe vaak heb ik het al niet geprobeerd? Alles zou zoveel eenvoudiger zijn als het anders was.

La vie, la vie la vie n'est pas comme les livres, elle peut être bien belle, même et parfois elle n'est pas toute rose, mais changer de couleur ne la rend pas meilleure. Aime-toi comme tu es, aime les autres comme ils sont. En vérité, mon si joli garçon, ce pourrait être cela la leçon.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Guidance only comes to the humble—to those who sorrow over their sin, and are prepared to listen and change; that is, repent. Faith

To step off the reservation to question the rules of the larger society is to take a great risk, but perhaps also to find a great opportunity. We will never know how great the opportunity was if we are afraid to take the risk.

It is only in winter that you can tell which trees are evergreen.

There is a fear that accompanies returning to a place that holds many of your life's memories, especially if years pass between leaving and returning.

The changing conditions of history touch only the surface of the show.

When people lost faith in their government, the result was revolution.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale. And, he goes on to say, we are living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales.

Emotions often change by morning. A sorrow that seems unbearable in the darkness often disappears with the coming of the sun.

What matters is that you gain more and more control of the institutions that serve us all so poorly.

Things do not have to last forever to be good, and when they end, it is not always proof that one's principles were wrong.

still behave as if they've been "colonized.

Joy, laughter, love—real magic that changes things. Actions must be rooted in love, not in anger, even at injustice. To feel those things, you have to heal yourself, and help yourself, before you can truly help others. Change yourself and you change the world around you.

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Za svoje sedanje življenje je nesmiselno kriviti druge ljudi, Boga ali usodo. Sedanje razmere smo povzro?ili sami in spremenimo jih lahko tako, da stare negativne vzorce obnašanja obrnemo in namesto njih prevzamemo nove, pozitivnejše.