Quotes About Change

we are the world and the world is us. There is conflict and fear in us, therefore there is conflict and fear in the world. The world is a screen Where we project our pictures. If we change and project love and peace, the world will change. People try to change the world without changing themselves. Only when we change will the world change. When we are as full of love and compassion, loving and compassionate people will come to us and our world will become different.

E da un certo giorno in avanti, è come al primo canto del gallo; per bujo che sia, non è più notte, se aguzzi lo sguardo vedi baluginare l'alba, il ricordo ha una diversa consistenza.

Le persone che più mi hanno giovato, e con le quali speravo di fare un lungo pezzo di strada, ora questo ora quello, mi sono scappate davanti agli occhi senza saper come

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Sonetul c?tre vânt Curgi, vântule: nebun nisip C?ci lumea e o lumânare Cel care vine f?r? chip Ucide umbrele-n suflare. Acesta este trupul meu Osp?? bolnav de alterare Hr?ne?te-te ?i bea mereu C?ci sângele-i cu minutare O, schimb?-m? în ce nu sunt În alt? na?tere mai mare Din pântece eram p?mânt ?i mama m? crezuse soare. Curgi, vântule: trezit mormânt, Pe flac?ra întâmpl?toare.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

c'est que je continue à les porter. Je les enlève avant

Religion stabilizes us and reassures us. Revelation destabilizes and disturbs us.

Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our activities.

Despair was a thing of the past, discarded like a scarf through the window of a moving car.

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

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I don't make a point of ending up in jail. But if you try to put your hopes and beliefs for a better life into effect, arrest is sometimes a hazard.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

Love, for her, was something to be gloried in and acknowledged; like so many others, she had not seen enough of the War at first hand to realise how quickly romance was being replaced by bitterness and pessimism in all the young lovers whom 1914 had caught at the end of their teens.

But I know these things will never come back,

People's live were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably,--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

how precious individuals and places become the moment that the possibility of leaving them turns into fact.

To have some real work to do after more than a year of purposeless pottering was like a bracing visit to a cliff-bound coast after lethargic existence on a marshy lowland.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.