Quotes About Change

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Who does not grow, declines.

The lake no longer water holds? Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, The lily?s constancy they share.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

But there's no guarantee that the world will change the way you want it to. I think that's the danger of changing the past that the minister was talking about.

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

Suddenly everything went black. A storm raged inside me. I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here. Worse that that, what had I been doing for all these years? Gradually the storm subsided, and for the first time I really understood: my thirty years as a guerrilla fighter for the Japanese army were abruptly finished. This was the end.

How would he react to a Japan that is so radically different, on the surface at least, from what it was in 1944?

We'll drive backwards in what will become your new car to the beach where we first slept side by side. The green waves will go back into the ocean, yellow and blue. You'll pull up my underwear. I'll button your shirt. We'll dress and dress and dress. Then we'll step into our footprints and erase our trail.

È un errore che non dimenticherò. Tutto il male nasce dalla debolezza. E io negavo la mia debolezza ferendo coloro che mi si paravano davanti. Ma sono cambiato quand'ho incontrato quel tipo… Per questo sono stato trafitto. Volevo purificarmi. Non m'interessa se vivo o muoio, ma se l'anima di suo fratello può essere salvata… E se posso lavare la mia colpa…

You can never love the same way twice

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire

The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present.