Quotes About Change

even the stay-at-home mothers subjected their kids to a kind of benign neglect back then.

Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.

The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways—that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.

It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it's like I'm in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.

What's odd about commencement is that so many people think of it as the end of something, the end of high school or college--but that's not what the word means at all. It means the beginning, the start of something new.

Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changing who we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form. This is not easy. It's painful and disturbing. We'll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it 'heroes'.

most of the unexpected changes we react to will turn out to be of no importance:

Whenever and whatever happened to alter the boy's view of the world so radically, from the moment that it happened, Mackay's story becomes one of subservience to the contrary will within him that he calls God.

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Ik geloof soms dat de koppigheid waarmee mensen aan tradities vasthouden, voldoende is om iedere hoop op te geven dat de mensheid door rationele maatregelen gelukkiger zal worden.

Oude mensen slijten harder dan hun kleren.

Nadie puede arrancar dos veces desde el mismo punto. Todo experimento que no pueda repetirse no es, en modo alguno, un experimento. Nadie puede experimentar con su vida. Nadie debería reprocharse el vivir a ciegas.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.

When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas