Quotes About Change

Sentirse culpable no cambia el pasado, así como preocuparse no cambia el futuro.

Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don't think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some stage set, and that's our version of the past. Of course models decay, and they change. And so we're constantly reshaping the past. Because the past is us. The past is our foundation.

I am old now, or oldening ...

Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April.

Yes, tings endure while the living lapse

We do not grow up; all we do is grow dull.

Lots of water under that bridge, let's not drown ourselves in it.

Yes, things endure, while the living lapse.

blue as a new bruise

But then, at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all?

Another week done with. How quickly the time goes as the season advances, the earth hurtling along its groove into the years's sharply descending final arc.

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage—and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?—may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.

I am amazed at how little has changed in the more than fifty years that have gone by since I was last here. Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?

But then, at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all? We

They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.

A teraz, ju? po wszystkim, co? nowego si? zacz??o, nowego dla mnie - trudna sztuka ?ycia po ?mierci.

Destruam et aedificabo, as Proudhon was wont to cry.

And my life is changed forever. But then, at what moment, of all our moments, is life not utterly, utterly changed, until the final, most momentous change of all?

beg Love's pardon for your want of faith. Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change.

Let your repentance salt my shoe leather, I said presently, and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love.

Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.

The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.

The word "innovation" comes from the Latin words in and novare, meaning "to make something new, to change".