Quotes About Change

Recognizing that the reasoning individual is far more likely to be carried away by some worthless passing fashion than he is to discover a new and valuable truth, they prefer to uphold ideas and behaviors that have been tested for generations and have stood their ground. And where they introduce alterations, they do so according to the method of constructive reasoning.

Ari-Name-geändert fixierte mich und sagte, du hast behauptet, du wärst ein Angsthase, und jetzt bist du hier der einzig Furchtlose. Ich rief ihm zu, ich hätte nur Angst, bis was passiere, aber wenn es dann einträte, wäre sie weg.

You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

We will change in order to create the future!

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow."

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

The game has changed. You can't go into a ballgame saying, hey, we have a great defense and we'll win 17-10. Those days, I think, are generally over, except if the Ravens play the Jets.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

It is a terrible fate to be a human, to be young and fair, and then so quickly to decay." "A terrible fate indeed: to grow, to learn, to love, to create, to let go. Some say it's a terrible fate to be a Faery; to stay unchanging and unfeeling for all eternity, to spend one's time in nothing but frivolity and pleasure-seeking," Sylvie answers.

revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That's because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.

because my memory had caught up with the world that had gone away.

As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube.

Per la mia imbranataggine in materia, ero come una casa senza porte e finestre: l'amore faceva su e giù, io sentivo il rumore dei passi, ma credevo che fosse lì per caso e diretto altrove. Finché, un giorno, si fece avanti e suonò il campanello.

La casetta si sta allontanando e i binari sono volati via. Continuo a perdermi inseguendo le mie tracce, e mi stanco. Mi siedo su una pietra, serafico come un albero. E i miei ricordi sembrano dei maratoneti mentre corrono al mondo che ho lasciato.

El tiempo nos impulsa hacia delante o hacia atrás y va alterando nuestro aspecto.

Art?k yaÅŸamak gerektiÄŸinin bask?s?n? duydum içimde. YaÅŸanacak hayat?m? yaÅŸamal?yd?m. BaÅŸtan aÅŸa?? maskaral?ktan bir ÅŸey olmasa da, gerçek hayat?mla hiç ilgisi bulunmasa da, art?k baÅŸlaman?n ve çaresiz ayaklar?m? harekete geçirmenin zaman? gelmiÅŸti benim için.

Neden her ÅŸeyi bozmaya, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye, her ÅŸeyi geçiciliÄŸe havale etmeye vazifelendirilmiÅŸiz böyle? Bu zevksiz görev, bütün dünyan?n 'hayat' diye tan?mlad??? ÅŸey miydi?

Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?

Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life? Or am I the only one for whom it is a duty?