Quotes About Change

If the left continues adopting, one after another, the objections that we reactionaries have raised against the modern world, we will have to become leftists.

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody .

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Once he settles down in the country he admires, the foreigner bastardizes exactly that which he admires.

Llámanse progresos los preparativos de las catástrofes.

transformaciones producidas al nivel de las teorías que ella misma barajaba para delinear sus estrategias revolucionarias. Es la eterna dialéctica entre

Understanding the transitory nature of all things is prerequisite to letting go of expectations and attachments.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. from the SERENITY PRAYER

Yoga is about opening ourselves to improvement and new ideas, rather than remaining stuck in the closed loops of deep subconscious patterns.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is acquired definitively. Like water, the world traverses you, and for a while, lends you its colours. It then draws back, leaving you once again to face the emptiness that one carries in oneself, to face that central insufficiency of the spirit that one must learn to live with, to fight, and which, paradoxically, is possibly our surest driving force.

The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons: you rely on them, even become part of the season itself, and each time they change, it seems to have to tear yourself away from a place where you have learned to live.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

Quando ci si smarrisce, i progetti lasciano il posto alle sorprese, ed è allora, ma solamente allora, che il viaggio comincia.

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.

Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.