Quotes About Change

and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

in a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible.

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

people move in the hope of a better life

Indeed, from my earliest years the idea of transformation has been central to my life. Naturally so, I suppose, being the child of diplomats. I changed schools, languages, countries and continents a number of times during my childhood. At each change I had the opportunity to re-create myself, to present a new façade, to bury past errors and misrepresentations.

Change becomes a habit and habits are hard to change. I

One such time I left town and on my way back, at a point where the land was high and I could see the sea to my left and down the road a long ways, I suddenly felt I was in heaven. The spot was in fact no different from when I had passed it not long before, but my way of seeing it had changed.

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

Es sollte anders kommen als wir dachten, aber was kann man da schon machen? Man muss das Leben nehmen, wie es kommt, und sehen, dass man das Beste daraus macht.

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Je me suis souvenue des soixante ans de mon père. On avait mangé une choucroute à la République. C'était l'âge qu'avaient les parents. Un âge immense et abstrait. Maintenant c'est toi qui l'as. Comment est-ce possible? Une fille fait les quatre cents coups, se trimbale dans la vie juchée et peinturlurée et tout à coup se met à avoir soixante ans.

Día tras día el mundo me ha empequeñecido y hoy es el mundo el que se empequeñece en mí. Así es. La muerte triunfa poco a poco. Nos vamos acostumbrando. Nos vamos acostumbrando a la muerte.

When existential depression attacks without warning, your father dyes his hair.

Les vieux, des gens d'une autre époque mis dans le futur.

If I weren't in a constant state of metamorphosis, I'd have to battle the gloom that comes with endings because I refuse to wind down in some female fit of the vapors.

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Pasaban los años,y la única persona que no cambiaba era la joven de su libro