Quotes About Change

After all, isn't consciousness the gateway to awareness. And awareness is the seed of change.

did you lose your mind all of the sudden or was it a slow, gradual process?

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

no one really knows anyone. That's the thing about relationships - people are always saying, "I want to know you, I want to know who you are." But it is so hard for anyone to even know themselves. Who I am is always changing, so how can anyone else share in that?

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Bad news has good legs.

There was no advance warning, no marginal area of incremental damage. The wave had come in with full force, spent itself and stopped at a point as clearly defined as the reach of a high tide. Above it, nothing had been touched; below it, everything was changed.

Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise

Too often, small towns invaded by urban expatriates lose their character and physical beauty to overdevelopment.

Another Swarthmore parent added, "Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I'm not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors.

I am not sure of the future," he says, "b."ut I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to the possibilities.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

Loving comfort, risking little, terrified by the thought of change, (the middle class') aim is to establish a materialistic civilization which will banish threats to its complacency. It has conventions, not ideals; it is washed rather than clean. Thus the final degradation of the Baconian philosophy is that knowledge becomes power in the service of appetite.

A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.

Weeds vividly demonstrate that natural life – and the course of evolution itself – refuse to be constrained by our cultural concepts. In so doing they make us look closely at the very idea of a divided creation.

How long did it take for a past to die?

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.