I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother TeresaTags: world change misattributed-to-mother-teresa yourself community incrementalism
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
Joyce Carol OatesThe more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam HoustonTags: fear change growth inertia self-invention
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.
Charles de LintTags: change
The one close to me now,
even my own body-
these too
will soon become clouds,
floating in different directions.
Tags: death change impermanence
Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.
Twyla TharpIt's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James GordonTags: inspirational change motivation
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John SteinbeckTags: change
Change happens very slow and very sudden.
Dorothy BryantTags: change science-fiction metaphysics feminist
I give you this to take with you:
Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.
Tags: poetry time change rebirth leaving moving
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