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Quotes About Change

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.
~ Leonard Cohen
Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
~ Leonard Cohen
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies
~ Leonard Cohen
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom...for trying to change the system from within
~ Leonard Cohen
only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy
~ Leonard Cohen
I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But time is long gone Past my laughing stock
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
~ Leonard Cohen
The party is over but I've landed on my feet And I'm standing here on this corner Where there used to be a street
~ Leonard Cohen
Durante le due settimane in cui restó in città, vide Tamara quasi tutte le sere. Lei aveva lasciato lo psichiatra e aveva sposato l'Arte, che era meno esigente e costava meno. "Non raccontiamoci nessuna novità, Tamara". "Cos'è, pigrizia o amicizia?". "È amore!". Breavman finse uno svenimento teatrale.
~ Leonard Cohen
And some women, Breavman thought, women like Shell, create [beauty] as they go along, changing not so much their faces as the air around them. They break down old rules of light and cannot be interpreted nor compared. They make every room original.
~ Leonard Cohen
Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness.
~ Leonard Koren
Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?
~ Leonard Koren
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
~ Leonard L. Levinson
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
~ Leonard Nimoy
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
~ Leonard Orr
To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
They wanted us to change," said Tetsuo. "They came to our planet and they wouldn't shut up about fluid overlays and unhierarchical forms of social organization. We felt like we had to listen to them, because they were so powerful. But secretly we thought of them as monsters from space. And now here we are at your planet, and we are the monsters from space." "Why'd you come here? Why even bother?" "Don't you want to be a monster from space, too?
~ Leonard Richardson
Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.
~ Leonard Sax
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
~ Leonard Susskind
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
~ Leonard Sweet
The poor can break out of their situation of oppression only by working out a strategy better able to change social conditions: the strategy of liberation. In liberation, the oppressed come together, come to understand their situation through the process of conscientization,3 discover the causes of their oppression, organize themselves into movements, and act in a coordinated fashion.
~ Leonardo Boff
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci