Quotes About Change

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

Kill your television!

The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.

loss of an economic basis is what, above all, fate means today.

I am sailing in uncharted water and my old life is a distant shore, still visible through the haze of retrospection but receding to a grey line on the horizon.

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

The wind is rising... we must attempt to live.

Le vent se lève, il faut tantrer de vivre = El viento se levanta, hay que intentar vivir

Les 'idées' sont pour moi des moyens de transformation - et par conséquent, des parties ou moments de quelque changement. Une 'idée' de l'homme 'est un moyen de transformer une question'.

Not knowing how to rid ourselves of our history, we shall be relieved of it by those happy peoples who have none, or next to none. And those happy peoples will impose their happiness on us.

Everything changes but the avant-garde

Svojstva tela su utoliko manje poznata ukoliko su stalnija. Što su više kao odvojiva od tela, ili promenjiva, više ih hvatamo. Toplina nam je pristupa?nija nego težina.

El viento se levanta… ¡hay que intentar vivir!

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.