Quotes About Change

Philosophers of the past have not done that which need be done, so I suppose it remains up to me to fulfil the inadequacies of those philosophers past.

Revolution is bloody, yet better still than living in a land of lies.

The destruction of a creation to create isn't true creation.

The you that you want to be is always opposite to the you that you truly are.

There is only one thing one can do if one doesn't like the world they see around them.

This world is lost, and The Philosophy must save it.

To gain, we must first lose.

To stay angry is to stay stagnant.

We all grow old. Some of us prolong it. Others accelerate it. Nobody can prevent it.

We will change the world together.

You must first be nothing to become something.

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In the middle as in the beginning of life, angels resemble themselves: how long it has been since I ceased to resemble myself!

If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

Everything gets better with time; how much time is up to us. It's dependent on when we choose to change the stories we tell about our lives; when we decide to spend more time creating the life we want than lamenting the hand we've been dealt; and when we realize that no one's love, forgiveness, or acceptance can be as profoundly healing as our own. Maybe if I stopped trying to control how I hurt, I'd feel a pain that would teach me what I need to do to love life more and need pain less.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Nothing in the past can convincingly point to [a black swan's] possibility.

Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection points that might have taken a different turn.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.