Quotes About Change

Whatever your personal beliefs and experiences, I invite you to consider that we need a new worldview to navigate this chaotic time. We cannot hope to make sense using our old maps. It won't help to dust them off or reprint them in bold colors. The more we rely on them, the more disoriented we become. They cause us to focus on the wrong things and blind us to what's significant. Using them, we will journey only to greater chaos.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

We think there is *one* planet called Earth, but there are thousands, even *millions*, like a snake shedding its skin every so often, but with all the old skins still bunched around it. You live inside the creature for quite a while, so it comes as a shock to find you're living now in one of the husked-off skins, and sometimes you can touch and know about the creature as it is now and sometimes you can't.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

Whatever is happening to Pique isn't what I think is happening, whatever that may be. What happened to me wasn't what anyone else thought was happening, and maybe not even what I thought was happening at the time. A popular misconception is that we can't change the past–everyone is constantly changing their own past, recalling it, revising it. What really happened? A meaningless question. But one I keep trying to answer, knowing there is no answer.

The river flowed both ways.

To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

The struggle is not lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind: I believe it. What are we to live for, except life itself? And, with all our doubts, with all our flaws, with all our problems, I believe that we will carry on, with God's help.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Now list six tasks that you currently face and create a Scenario Two for yourself:

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.

Il destino è come il cuore: è dentro di noi fin dal primo istante, perciò è inutile cercare di cambiarlo.

Gli amori nuovi sono pieni di paure, Angela, non hanno un posto nel mondo e non hanno capolinea.

Il coraggio, Angela, appartiene agli amori nuovi, gli amori vecchi sono sempre un po' vili.

Il fango fermo della vita ora è polvere che vola verso di me.

I'll never know how many men loved her before me, but I know that each of them, whether he was good to her or wrong, did his part in shaping her, making her what she is.

Non saprò mai quanti uomini l'hanno amata prima di me, ma so che ognuno, accudendola o scalfendola, ha contribuito a plasmarla, a farla così com'è.

Tu ancora ami il mio cuore?" "Sempre. Sempre te per sempre." "Non pensi che sono cambiata, che sono peggiore? Pavida, gretta, stretta ai miei golfini, ai miei passi rachitici." "Penso che profumi di un odore che mi piacerà sempre.