Quotes About Change

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

Everything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after.

Changes in consciousness begin with art and take shape through discussion of art. But the process takes a long time and involves a lot of people working in many small ways.

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.

Il susino è sfiorito. Chioma verde di foglioline giovani. Nessuno adesso potrebbe sospettare la bellezza mozzafiato di prima. Così per tante donne vecchie che per pochi giorni soltanto sono state belle.

Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain. At least four times as many classical poems are set in autumn and spring, the seasons of transition, than in summer and winter. But what that means, I realize as the years pass, is that nothing can be taken for granted; people are on alert, wide awake, ready to seize each day as a blessing because the next one can't be counted on.

So much of our lives takes place in our heads - in memory or imagination, in speculation or interpretation - that sometimes I feel that I can change my life by changing the way I look at it.

Even as we fret about the changes our progress wreaks in the air and on the airwaves, in forests and on streets, we hardly worry about the change it is working in ourselves, the new kind of soul that is being born out of a new kind of life. Yet this could be the most dangerous development of all, and the least examined. " -Pico Iyer

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying. How to see the world as it is, yet find light within that truth.

You learned about autumn early.

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying.

This road No one on it As autumn ends

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

Un libro de verdad afecta en mayor o menor grado a lo que pensamos y, por tanto, a lo que somos. Cambia en cierta medida, el mundo que consiste, en parte, en la idea que tenemos de él, ya lo adorne y agrande, ya consuma su ruina No conozco libro, cuando ha importado, que no haya hecho temblar el suelo de la existencia, dislocado la visión pobre, burda que yo tomaba, antes de que la quebrantara, por la realidad.

révolution du regard qui s'accomplit dans et par la révolution de l'écriture suppose et suscite à la fois une rupture du lien entre l'éthique et l'esthétique, qui va de pair avec une conversion totale du style de vie. Cette conversion, qui s'accomplit dans l'esthétisme du style de vie

C'est dans l'histoire que réside le principe de la liberté à l'égard de l'histoire.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

Harvest, oh! harvest your hourWhile life is abloom with youth!For age with bitter ruthWill fade your beauty's flower.

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose Qui ce matin avait declose Sa robe de pourpre au soleil, A point perdu cetter verpree, Les plis de sa robe pourpree, Et son teint au votre pareil