Quotes About Shift

That's the thing about life, Elliot thought. Whatever just happened, good or bad, it always moves on.

It's always 'something is lost, but something else is gained.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

Things change so fast. Life turns on a dime.

Chapter One The Tipping Day Is it just me, or does everybody have a day in their life like the one I'm about to retell? I'm talking about those days that act like a fulcrum between everything that came before and your brand-new life after. It

After love, no one is what they were before.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital divide, there is a generational shift in the kinds of learning happening by those both living above the poverty

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

The powers of the world are shifting. Culture is becoming more relevant than politics. Cities more relevant than nations. Continents more relevant than nations. But continents less relevant than cities. Languages more relevant than nations. Languages are alive. Nations are dead. I should not be concerned about what is alive or dead. Yes, I should. I want what is alive - not what is dead - following what is dead delays my path.

You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.

We do wish for easy answers, for silver bullets, for proven programs, for implementable solutions. When paradigms shift, when deep change is needed, our very assumptions, values and behaviors are questioned. The real challenge is to re-invent the very world we live in.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

We are always permeable, shifting. We are all only one strange leap away from becoming inconceivable to our former selves.

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Then what happened next happened.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.