Quotes About Change

I reached out and, with a small move of my body, did something that would change my life forever. I gently moved Amy aside and stepped down ahead of her, putting myself between her and the shadows.

No, war is never about killing the enemy. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

You have to talk through the bratwurst from now on.

Today's cloud is tomorrow's puddle.

At your age, life is full of possibilities. But as the years pass, those possibilities vanish, one by one, like doors closing in a hallway. You feel time slip by, and your energy slip away. One day, you realize you're too old to be a famous musician, or change careers, or have more children. And each of those closed doors represents a regret. As you get older, well, those regrets come to define you.

A teenager stood there. Right in the middle of my living room, a space that had been proudly teenager-free for years.

I stared out of the window, at my Bronco rusting in the parking lot, the metal eager to get back to just being dirt. Life was probably easier for it back then.

Somewhere, Charles Darwin nodded and smiled a knowing smile.

Molly had moved when the rest of the world was still,

Would it not be the beautiful thing now If you were coming instead of going…

With every new moment, he was no longer the man he'd been the moment before.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

What is a human being, then?' 'A seed.' 'A ... seed?' 'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.

As a germinated seed seeks its way out of the ground into the light of day, I longed to break free of the old thoughtways that stifled me and restrained my inspiration.

Never stop working on yourself. You can't change other people but you definitely can change yourself.

observant Judeans would make a stop by the baths before morning prayers, as immersion was a component of spiritual cleanliness. For Jacob there was far more here than merely cleaning off the road's dust. He knew that the act of immersion was considered a symbol of change. Of elevating oneself from the earthly to the heavenly realms. Jacob wanted to mark all that had happened with such an act, and to complete the action with prayer.

Look around the martial arts," Lee continued, "and witness the assortment of routine performers, trick artists, desensitized robots, glorifiers of the past. Life is constant movement - rhythmic as well as random. Life is continual change, not stagnation. Instead of choicelessly flowing with this process of change, many 'masters', past and present, rigidly subscribe to traditional concepts and techniques of the art, solidfiying the everflowing, dissecting the totality.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding....

Nobody ever decided anything. Situations were solved only by other situations.

I felt like I would disappear if I were not hemmed in by the familiar and unchanging.

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away — it's just like a really long, bad cold.

I will not die an unlived life.... I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

but I had to find out if the desire to be a leader was stronger than his habit of being a boss.