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Quotes About Change

what if a much of a which of a wind
~ E.E. Cummings
tomorrow is our permanent address
~ E.E. Cummings
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
~ E.E. Cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down)
~ E.E. Cummings
old age sticks up Keep Off signs)& youth yanks them down(old age cries No Tres)&(pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must n't Don't &)youth goes right on gr owing old
~ E.E. Cummings
gone are those hugest hours of dark and cold when blood and flesh to inexistence bow (all that was doubtful's certain,timid's bold; old's youthful and reluctant's eager now)
~ E.E. Cummings
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
~ E.J. Dionne Jr.
You have to go through life with more than just passion for change; you need a strategy. I'll repeat that. I want you to have passion, but you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness, but action. Not just hashtags, but votes. You see, change requires more than righteous anger.
~ E.J. Dionne Jr.
The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding.
~ E.L. Doctorow
one day you stepped in snow, the next in mud, water soaked in your boots and froze them at night, it was the next worst thing to pure blizzardry, it was weather that wouldn't let you settle.
~ E.L. Doctorow
And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
~ E.L. Doctorow
the forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else.
~ E.L. Doctorow
In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
You must think of those six steps not as a preparation for the beginning, but as the beginning itself
~ E.L. Konigsburg
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ E.M. Forster
You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.
~ E.M. Forster
We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing
~ Eavan Boland
Change depends on the questions we ask. Always providing we are willing to ask them. And a t a certain point, I set out to find those questions.
~ Eavan Boland
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
~ Eckhart Tolle
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
~ Eckhart Tolle