Quotes About Change

It's getting old"—he said—"your stoic-Britons-confront-the-impatient-American thing.

he no longer had enough faith in anger's utility to pursue its course.

Love has mass and volume. Put it into your life; it must displace something. As it has displaced my notion of what was good and important in the world, and substituted this: The knowledge that there is nothing more important than people willing to stand up for the truth of each other. The understanding of what it is to protect another fragile being. The understanding that I, too, will grow old.

a change of governance that could soon mean different heads lofted in punishment for the telling of different truths. She wanted to breathe the warning into all their ears: never let your true thought be known, for it is by truth that you are noosed and for truth burnt.

Then must we abandon our accustomed notion of a woman's kindness, and forge a new one.

Marion: What is all this? What's going on? Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

el mismo pensamiento cambia al sujeto pensante.

The only way back is the way forward.

Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

reality is perception perception change....reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing

Even the most exotic excursions can become tedious through repetition.

She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change.

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.

There's the past, which we might wish desperately that we can change, and there's now. If we don't seize the now with all our might, it becomes just another part of the past that we end up wishing we could change.

You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —C. G. Jung

We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love

Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast

But insanity is everywhere these days, and celebrated. Insanity is rapidly becoming the new normal.