Quotes About Change

There is no such thing as immortality: death is change. A human being is dying every day that it lives. The material of its body is exchanged for other materials, its thoughts change. All that lives is the DNA, and what does that matter to you? In the end it is your mind that is important.

Milk, cheese, and ice cream once enjoyed a healthful reputation that few people questioned, but that has changed. It has become clear that these foods contribute not only fat but also cholesterol, animal protein, and, in the case of fat-free varieties, a big load of lactose sugar.

What I have found over and over is that, once we have made short-term changes, they tend to change our long-term habits.

El hermano mayor se encuentra en una posición superior de juicio hacia los demás. Podemos encerrar a alguien en una prisión pensando: "Es así, nunca cambiará". Al etiquetar a los demás, nos damos una razón para retirarnos de la relación. Los muros de la prisión que construimos están edificados para protegernos.

Maybe he should stop with the pot. But then he wouldn't be able to get stoned anymore, and that was hardly a solution.

That sounded a lot more appetizing than my aging cynicism, complete lack of interest in others, and lifetime of enthusiastic immersion in a culture that encourages you to look out for number one. Clearly, my best self was miles down the road.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

Show some fucking adaptability!

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

What you resist, persists

I just want to not be me.

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

To make changes, you'll need to break out of automatic pilot and start making conscious choices when

Notice how quickly your feelings change when you know there is a more immediate and real danger than the possibility of falling. How did you do that?

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The journey to significance starts with the mere willingness to surrender the status quo and take the first step of faith into the adventure.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.