Change - Quotes
The best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming.
It`s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
You can`t go back and change the small things in your life without putting the other things at risk.
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they`re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
We generally resist change until the pain of making a switch becomes less than the pain of remaining in our current situation.
Just as one wouldn`t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn`t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system - learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention - may radically transform one`s life.
We do not change ourselves, precisely - because we have only ourselves with which to do the changing - but we continually influence, and are influenced by, the world around us and the world within us.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
The more we understand the world, the less bewildering it becomes, and the more we’re able to change it.
You can never pinpoint the exact moment that a species came to be, because it never did. Just like how you used to be a baby and now you're older, but there was no single day when you went to bed young and woke up old. (...) There was no first human. It sounds like a paradox, it sounds like it breaks the whole theory of evolution, but it's really a key to truly understanding how evolution works. Evolution happens like a movie, with frames moving by both quickly and gradually, and we often can't see the change while it's occurring. Every time we find a fossil, it's a snapshot back in time, often with thousands of frames missing in between, and we're forced to reconstruct the whole film. Life is what happens in between the snapshots. Instead of a nice smooth road this is a journey on stepping stones and we give each one their own name.
No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. [...] The big moments are gonna come. You can`t help that. It`s what you do afterwards that counts. That`s when you find out who you are.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
Someday we will change into two people that pass like the seasons
Even if there will be nights when you will be frozen from sadness
Don`t forget
Nothing will ever end
In a deep dream.