Quotes About Change

either I can be like some traveler of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveler, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality....A few hundred years hence, in this same place another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Alas, it is an illusion to suppose that the invasion of one element disencumbers another.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor

Para seguir en el colegio donde todas esas mujeres con las que hoy va a almorzar mandan a sus hijos, él tenía que ser otro. Uno parecido a los hijos de ellas. Por eso hace tiempo que no las ve, porque sus comentarios, aunque se refieran al gimnasio, a la mucama o a la liquidación donde se compraron la mejor ropa de la temporada, no sólo la sacan de quicio sino que llegaron a producirle el mismo sentimiento que los olvidos de Andrés: ganas de matar a alguien.

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice.

For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent.

History's authority over us is not broken by maintaining a silence about its continued effects.

it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.

There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

Psychologically, accidia manifests as a loss of interiority, a refusal to see, and a resistance to change. The combination of loss of interiority and the resigned and abnegated character that goes along with it, results in a syndrome of a good-hearted, comfortable "earthiness" that may be exaggerated to the point of literalness and narrowness.

It is never too late to do what is right.

I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.