Quotes About Change

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Luther's revolution had, like all great revolutions, failed. But like all great revolutions, it had created a new world.

It turned out that the Germans' modest and conscientious reforms were only a starting point for more rapacious regimes to come.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

Señor, la jaula se ha vuelto pájaro.

Inútil explicar mis silencios. En el fondo de mí hay siempre una espera primitiva de un cambio mágico.

Extraño desacostumbrarme de la hora en que nací. Extraño no ejercer más oficio de recién llegada.»

Hace un momento tenía la preocupación de que no le querías bastante y ahora casi me da miedo verte quererle tanto

Siete vestidos pueden ser toda una vida: el claro de la primera mañana, el de regar las hortensias, el de tirar piedras al río, el de aquella noche que se quemó el mantel de fiesta con un cigarrillo. Ahora, así apretados, ya no hay fiesta ni hortensias ni río. Sí, Genoveva, hacer un equipaje es como enterrar algo.

PEREGRINA.—No os entiendo. Si os oigo quejaros siempre de la vida, ¿por qué os da tanto miedo dejarla? ABUELO.— No es por lo que dejamos aquí. Es porque no sabemos lo que hay al otro lado. PEREGRINA.—Lo mismo ocurre cuando el viaje es al revés. Por eso lloran los niños al nacer.

No es posible regresar a ninguna parte. Los puntos de partida no se quedan quietos y a la vuelta ya no están. Para poder volver se necesita, por empezar, un punto de partida eterno e inmutable. Pero todo se mueve y no hay forma de detener el universo.

Enseguida el niño comprueba que ha sucedido algo mucho más terrible que los fantasmas sin forma que venían atormentándolo: en un segundo, su vida ha transcurrido en su casi totalidad. Sus padres están muertos hace mucho. La casa es otra. Nadie escucha su llanto.

No cuentes el tiempo sino tus transformaciones

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.