Quotes About Change

playing a leading role in the Protestant revolution

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

A seismic shift was about to occur, one that discounted her kinship bonds to Elizabeth

Within the space of six months, she had been widowed and orphaned and had lost her standing as queen of France.

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

If this were not enough, a volte-face had taken place in France itself.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet [shofar] will sound, and the dead will be raised. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–52)

Only a change in our way of life would heal the sickness of our age — and this is only likely to happen when disaster confronts us.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.

En un mundo superior puede ser de otra manera, pero aquí abajo, vivir es cambiar y ser perfecto es haber cambiado muchas veces.

To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. I

I wish she were alive, but I am grateful for her death. If she were alive, I would likely still be working at the literary agency. For how much longer in my life would I have believed there was time for everything? And by the time I faced my own mortality at the Bookmill in western Massachusetts, how much less would I have done? Her leaving taught me about the worst sadness, one we all must face eventually. I feel lucky I am better equipped to help others who are going through it now.

There are transitions in life whether we want them or not. You get older. You lose jobs and loves and people. The story of your life may change dramatically, tragically, or so quietly you don't even notice. It's never any fun, but it can't be avoided. Sometimes you just have to walk into the cold dark water of the unfamiliar and suffer for a while.

This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.

But even though we were all horrifying reminders of our own mortality, it was nice to see my old, crumbling friends.

I felt my brain change shape the way everyone's does when they first sit in first class. First there is disbelief and euphoria. You touch all the little seat-adjustment buttons and the sleeping masks and cozy socks and want to cry. You feel so lucky.

The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised, the subordination of our doing to the dictates of abstract labour, that is, of value, money, profit. It is this abstraction which is, after all, the very existence of the state. If we want to change society, we must stop the subordination of our activity to abstract labour, do something else.

We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something radically wrong with the world that exists.

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods.