Quotes About Change

The fact that you have the intention to work for others is important. Act on your wholesome intentions and altruistic impulses. If you have the thought of benefiting society, that is significant. Nurture and treasure that thought, and act on it as best you can. Doing so will certainly change you, and that in itself can be the start of the change you want to see in your world. – 17th Karmapa

The Tao is in the Passage rather than the Path. It is the spirit of Cosmic Change,--the eternal growth which returns upon itself to produce new forms. It recoils upon itself like the dragon, the beloved symbol of the Taoists. It folds and unfolds as do the clouds. The Tao might be spoken of as the Great Transition. Subjectively it is the Mood of the Universe. Its Absolute is the Relative.

wash off the journey

in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.

Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.

No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledge of the doom which your own imperfection imposes on you. Even if we could, we would not change it; for it is a theme required in the strange music of the spheres.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

An image of an image, which is a perfect place to live if you want to be something other than what you once were.

It had been a five-year exercise in self-immolation.

If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, "WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS

They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

It is widely known, after all, that real life takes place in movement.

Uve?er promatram Veneru, podrobno pratim promjene te lijepe Gospo?ice. Više je volim kao ve?ernju zvijezdu, kada se pojavljuje niotkud, kao za?arana, i spušta za Suncem, Iskra vje?ne svjetlosti. Upravo u Sumrak zbivaju se najzanimljivije stvari, jer tada se zagla?uju jednostavne razlike. Mogla bih živjeti u vje?nom Sumraku." str. 48.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

Change is the nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity. (P4)

Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

One for sorrow, two for joy. So they said when I was a child, but there were fewer Magpies then.

What do you expect us to do?" "Set the wheels in motion. Punish the culprits. Change the law." "That's too much. You can't want all those things," he said. "Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want," I shouted furiously

I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that – in spite of all the risks involved – a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.