Quotes About Change

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

All appears to change when we change.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

The crisis of the community, its dislocation, the distress of most of its members, went hand in hand with technological progress and social differentiation.

vu comment il nous traitait, c'était sans doute qu'il avait vécu deux ou trois trucs par le passé qui changent le cœur des hommes.

Odchodzisz beze mnie, moje ?ycie, Toczysz si?, A ja wci?? czekam, zanim zrobi? krok, Ty ju? gdzie indziej stajesz do walki ...

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Det värsta är inte att man förlorar sina pengar utan att man förlorar sina rika vänner.

Americans need to continue to develop broad-based movements that reject the established political parties and rethink the social formations necessary to bring about a radical democracy. We see this in the Black Lives Matter movement as well as in a range of other movements that are resisting corporate money in politics, the widespread destruction of the environment, nuclear war and the mass incarceration state.

Some have spoken of the "American Century." I say that the century on which we are entering—the century which will come out of this war—can be and must be the century of the common man.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.

Our yesterdays are like a lonely and a ruined land wherein a breeze of recollection sighs--a fading land to which is no return.

The years like birds of passage go To that eternal clime, the past; And May's immortal lot is cast Upon their flight o'er all below, Like sunlight on a field of snow, Or some sweet rose-leaf on the blast.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone—but never hustled.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.