Quotes About Change

Des choses incroyables vous tombent dessus, détournent le cours de votre existence et le bouleversent de fond en comble. Vous avez beau fuir au bout du monde, vous réfugier là où personne ne risque de vous trouver, elles vous suivent à la trace comme une meute de chiens errants et font de vous quelqu'un qui ne vous ressemble en rien et qui devient la seule histoire que l'on retiendra de vous. Certains appellent ces choses "mektoub".

Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away from the misery even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream...

El polvo ha cubierto de tierra los huertos, ha cegado las miradas y puesto cemento a las ideas

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard or stand on the platform and watch as it passes, and there is nothing sadder than an abandoned station.

Timpul se oprise pentru noi. Bineinteles, ziua continua sa fuga de noapte si seara sa ucida aurorele, dar,in ceea ce ne privea, lucrurile ajunsesera la capatul lor. O noua pagina se deschidea si noi nu figuram acolo. Ratacesc printre umbre si cenusa, de parca as fi o fantoma captive in ruinele mele. Eram convins ca imi pierdusem mintile.

ViaÅ£a este un tren care nu se opreÅŸte în nicio gar?. Fie îl lu?m din mers, fie îl privim trecând de pe peron, ÅŸi nu e tragedie mai mare decât o gar? fantom?.

Time changes everything, including the soul of a face.

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.

They were wary of each other at first, but in time formed a tight alliance that lasted twenty years until it came unstuck over the execution of Julia Gillard.

A family lives here; they are busy and happy and a little messy but someday that won't be so and you'll be sorry.

I get superstitious in late summer.

Opportunity is born with each new year.

There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

To know and admire history's heroes involves a knowledge of the full historical context they lived in, warts and all, in order to see clearly how they changed that world for the better.

Ideas have a history. They undergo a process of development. They change, are modified, and are distributed. They could be forgotten for a while, but they might reappear years, decades, or even centuries later. No matter how much you may wish you were an island unto yourself, such is not the case. Your upbringing, your culture, your associates—all of them have shaped who you are. That comes from the past.

Most people think that their only option is to change their circumstances. But these are not the true causes of their unhappiness. It has more to do with the way they think about their circumstances.

Whatever is in our mind, we project onto the world outside us. Step by step, if we transform the way we think, especially by letting go of the self-grasping mind, we also transform our reality.

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.