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Quotes About Change

The Venerable'—isn't that what you call yourself? Trying to find comfort in dreams of a past that will never come again, rather than hope for the future.
~ Osamu Dazai
I hope for a revolution in ethics and morals. Then, my obsequiousness and this need to plod through life according to others' expectations would simply dissolve.
~ Osamu Dazai
Thirty. "Something of the maiden's fragrance lingers with a woman until she is twenty-nine, but nothing is left about the body of the woman of thirty years.
~ Osamu Dazai
He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.
~ Osamu Dazai
Apparently when someone stays in a civilized kingdom too long, even his skin becomes delicate.
~ Osamu Dazai
It wasn't an ordinary sickness. God had killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.
~ Osamu Dazai
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. This is what we both certainly are. The revolution must be taking place somewhere, but the old morality persists unchanged in the world around us and lies athwart our way. However much the waves on the surface of the sea may rage, the water at the bottom, far from experiencing a revolution, lies motionless, awake but feigning sleep.
~ Osamu Dazai
We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.
~ Osamu Dazai
The revolution is far from taking place. It needs more, many more valuable, unfortunate victims. In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.
~ Osamu Dazai
Ahora, ahora, ahora. Cada "ahora" que señalo con el dedo se va volando lejos para dejar paso a un nuevo "ahora"."¡Vaya! ¿¡esto qué es!?", pensé mientras bajaba las escaleras del puente. Menuda idiotez. A lo mejor es que soy demasiado feliz.
~ Osamu Dazai
Y?k?c?l?k hem trajik hem de harikulade bir ?ey. Y?kmak,yeniden yapmak,mükemmelle?tirmek dü?ü !
~ Osamu Dazai
En el fondo, nos hemos equivocado al prejuzgar que convertirse en un abuelito de trescientos años ha supuesto una desgracia para Urashima.
~ Osamu Dazai
Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.
~ Osamu Tezuka
Even trees that grow big and strong still bend to the will of the wind
~ Unknown
A man is a puppet in the hands of time and change.
~ Unknown
Apartheid continues to thrive with the same strength but in a different form, and this puts a heavier burden on the shoulders of those who wish to fight against Apartheid types of injustice.
~ Unknown
Divorce is an epidemic that causes as much pain as any disease.
~ Unknown
For a social enterprise to make an impact in the world, it needs a solid foundation based on sustainability.
~ Unknown
Just because you're changing doesn't mean you're not in control of the person you become.
~ Unknown
No one builds a legacy by standing still.
~ Unknown
Ready to make your voice heard? Go and vote.
~ Unknown
Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.
~ Unknown
Social entrepreneurship is about disrupting existing markets that aren't working, and creating new ones to improve the status quo.
~ Unknown
Social entrepreneurship is both a huge business opportunity but also an area where we really think we can deliver a lot of impact.
~ Unknown