Quotes About Change

She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it, the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was. The ever-moving, ever-changing present. And the present was fickle. It could only be caught by letting go.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present.

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Amidst the Brambles, a changeling cannot help but feel exposed, vulnerable, and even trapped, and those feelings are not without merit.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.

Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.

time always erodes advantage.

I'm sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can't even change itself. I'm tired of the bullshit.

It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

Taken all together, the whole thing is an ingenious system for inhibiting progress and the popular will. The deck is stacked just enough to make sure that nothing ever changes. But enough is left to chance to make sure that hope never completely dies out.

Twice in a year and a half, I had undergone two complete transformations of my so-called self. First, my conscious self was transformed into something other than it previously had been by psychedelic drugs. Then, a year and a half later, my original self was restored, this time by a drug known as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI).

Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, tis no foot of unfamiliar men> Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days; Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.