Quotes About Change

he was turning sixty-two, not an age of life-altering shocks but only of subtle diminishments.

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.

This protest, the rebellion, was a tonic.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

And why was I still here? I felt I was killing time, especially in Russia, which, in spite of all the talk of change and reform, seemed exactly the same place as it had ever been: a pretentious empire with a cruel government that was helpless without secret police.

The writing profession that I have always known is changing, old media is ossified, and what I know of new media is that it is casual, opinionated, improvisational, largely unedited, full of whoppers, often plagiarized, and poorly paid.

I think shows how nebulous some migrants regard this desire for transformation.

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

In an uncommon move, a young US Border Patrol officer in El Paso, Francisco Cantú, disenchanted with his job, quit to become an activist on border abuses.

A woman in the English Department at Fudan University walked with a cane as a result of criticism by Red Guards-she was kicked and beaten for advocating the reading of the Bourgeois feudalist William Shakespeare. But times had changed. This same woman had just been a faculty adviser on a student production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Shanghai Shakespeare Festival in the spring of 1986.

Perhaps it was working; side by side, Douglas (a town that had lost its industries) and Agua Prieta (a town that had gained many factories) stood out as the safest and most serene towns I saw in the whole of my traverse of the border.

Look for the truth in nature, I wanted to say to those cookie-eating missionaries in the next compartment; nothing is complete, everything is imperfect, nothing lasts. Go to bed.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.

Sarayu: "Mack, if anything matters than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again" (235).

But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it--like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve. (Sean)

Zelda is worried about the regular death that happens when you grow too old. -Henry

In his clear view of the world, free from illusion--suddenly saw that the day of men like the Colonel was over. The Great War had created a new world in which the values of the Colonel and his kind had become outdated, even dangerous, for they assumed that men still adhered to a code of honour simply because they belonged to a particular class. And this was no longer true.

but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself.

Story of O is one of those books which marks the reader, which leaves him not quite, or not at all, the same as he was before he read it.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello. Paulo Coehlo