Quotes About Change

the future gives birth to the present

The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.

It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her, she'd crossed a brink from which there was no turning back. Whoever she had been, she was not anymore. And her life, for better or worse, would never again be what it had.

If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

Unlike her, nothing had yet happened to him.

Once you harden, the arteries do.

Till the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, most American men wore hats to work. What happened? Did our guys—suddenly scouting overhead for worse Sunday raids—come to fear their hatbrims' interference?

Well, there are many reasons to get finally given the push," he said of his abandonment of Klein as his manager. "Let's say that possibly Paul's suspicions were right.

Trees are like people. We're alive, then we're memories, then we're not even that.

Life unravels as it's lived. It can't be woven back together.

Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped smoking.

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

When I was green and blossomed in the Spring I was mute wood. Now I am dead I sing.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

The dog and the butler could go, but the rest had serious potential.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

La vida es lo que ocurre mientras tú estás ocupado haciendo otros planes.

La vida es eso que sucede mientras haces planes.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.