Quotes about change

I'm telling you, the whole of Australia went crazy. The national obsession became reform. I even think they understood that it wasn't the ideas themselves but the idea of the ideas, the idea that we might as well restlessly innovate and wherever possible obliterate our slavish connection with the past. Why? Because the past is always the worst thing happening to the present at any given time.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

There will be changes. Coups. Soldiers everywhere. Ugliness. Blindness. And then when people least expect it a great transformation is going to take place in the world. Suffering people will know justice and beauty. A wonderful change is coming from far away and people will realise the great meaning of struggle and hope. There will be peace.

Things changed, he thought. Then they didn’t. And we forgot they could again.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

No matter how passionately or minutely he might attempt to rewrite the past, the present circumstances in which he found himself would remain generally unchanged. Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course. A few minor facts might be changed, but Tengo would still be Tengo.

Wynkoop said afterward that his conversations with the two Cheyennes on this march caused him to change his long-held opinions of Indians. “I felt myself in the presence of superior beings; and these were the representatives of a race that I heretofore looked upon without exception as being cruel, treacherous, and bloodthirsty without feeling or affection for friend or kindred.”

Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict.

The solution to global warming is not to fix the world, but to fix ourselves.

She had tried explaining it so many times, but he was hung up on the woman she used to be, and she was disappointed in the man he still was.