Quotes About Change

Nothing exists forever in one shape or another. You say existence – you say transformation, evolution and regress.

Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.

We are born to experience blossoming, ripening and wasting.

Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.

Can you really change anything, Joel?

Your kind shouldn't come here. The change is too great for Seals. Yet you have chosen it and rejected your society, so you must learn quickly or perish.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps;opening and shutting itself likeaninjured fan.

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere. . . . Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

La revolución es el huracán, y el hombre que se entrega a ella no es ya el hombre, es la miserable hoja seca arrebatada por el vendaval…

Llega uno a cualquier parte y no tiene más que escoger la casa que le cuadre y ésa agarra sin pedirle licencia a naiden. Entonces ¿pa quién jue la revolución? ¿Pa los catrines? Si ahora nosotros vamos a ser los meros catrines.

Qué hermosa es la revolución, aun en su misma barbarie!

Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.

curro?… Usté es de otra madera, y la verdá, no entiendo cómo pueda gustarle esta vida. ¿Qué cree que uno anda aquí por su puro gusto?… Cierto, ¿a qué negarlo?, a uno le cuadra el ruido; pero no sólo es eso… Siéntese, curro, siéntese para contarle. ¿Sabe por qué me levanté?… Mire, antes de la revolución tenía yo hasta mi tierra volteada para sembrar, y si no hubiera sido por el

Annie had wondered then if it was true, if the most important things in people's lives were also the most sorrowful, if saying good-bye altered a person in ways that saying 'I love you' could not.

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

So what is the moral of this story? The answer out of Cajamarca is: Do what you can. You can't change skin, can't fix tongues, can't brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking

En Bolívar veía al único líder que podía librar a la nación de la nauseabunda corrupción política, la insurgencia armada y la rampante ignorancia que la corroían[

I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they are married, they have been through it already, and if not, I am sure they have devoted some thought to the matter. To marry means to leave one home for another, and often one place for another.

This edition will also carry a new title. Formerly known as The Draconeia (a name assigned to it by Lord Gleinleigh), it will now be issued under the title Turning Darkness Into Light . It will be available for sale on 13 Nebulis, only one week after the original intended date.

No puedes esperar construir un mundo mejor sin mejorar a las personas. Con ese fin cada uno de nosotros debe trabajar en su propia mejora.

When you have grown old, newness always comes from the inside.