Quotes About Change

Everything had changed now. Gothenburg, Kiruna, had become just anecdotes he'd tell Ingrid instead of some sort of final judgment against him. He

It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget—but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

It is the living nature of resistance. It exists in a constant flux, changing, breeding, metastasizing. All information about it's internal processes is rendered obsolete by revelation.

Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.

Don't try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.

When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.

If we are all bad women, then patriarchy had better watch out.

Peace is not just a prayer.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Los monarcas vienen y van, pero el mundo sigue necesitando médicos

We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

But you grew out of it." "Grew? No. I burned it all down, drank myself into a stupor, pissed off everyone I knew." They think about that for a moment, how sometimes the only way to learn not to play with fire is to go up in flames.

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

They are looking for the smooth remains of bottles, shiny coins of broken glass worn smooth by the sea. This is what happens when things break. The pieces separate, scatter. They are battered by the elements, buffed and polished smooth, then deposited on far-off beaches. All your hopes and dreams.

But in the same way a man's nose and ears become exaggerated as he ages, so do the psychological issues that define him. We

People get up in the morning and they think it's another day. They make plans. They move in a chosen direction. But it's not another day. It's the day their train derails or a tornado touches down or the ferry sinks.

This is who we had become by then, people who gathered in the rain, arguing over whether or not they were getting wet.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

He had been young once and limitless, and then somehow his life became a foregone conclusion. An almost was, not even a has been.

Either we prevent 1.5 degrees [Celsius] of warming or we don't.

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.

Don't you see? they cried. All we have to do is change.