Quotes About Change

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

To eat an egg, you must break the shell.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.

How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.

involution always precedes evolution

It was Heraclitus, of course, who came up with the formulation that we are never able to step into the same river twice. ... The obverse of Heraclitus's maxim may be that one is never able to step out of the river the same, twice. A neuron in the brain is altered with every experience. The self, if it exists, must be a constantly evolving thing. Those coming to the banks of the Ganges or Jordan to immerse themselves do not expect to leave the same as they arrive.

Comunque, la cosa più impressionante del cristianesimo la nota Newman. Lui dice che solo il cristianesimo, in tutta la storia dell'umanità, ha come contenuto del suo messaggio – dal punto di vista antropologico, cioè dal punto di vista dell'uomo – l'annuncio di un cambiamento radicale della personalità. Un cambiamento non morale, ma un cambiamento radicale della personalità.

la fede c'entra con la realtà quando cambia l'io nella sua mossa dentro la realtà; e in questo senso la fede si chiama memoria.

Tu ci hai detto che la menzogna suprema è quando identifichiamo il «mistero» con la morte, con l'inevitabilità del male, con la desolazione. È una menzogna perché è la negazione della possibilità di cambiamento? Della possibilità del cambiamento, certo. È il demoniaco, è la diabolicità.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.