Quotes about Change

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

You say you're a coward, but it takes courage to say good-bye to everything and cross a threshold without any idea where it leads.

To love a place you must participate in the community and give back something in return for all you receive. I believe I have done that. There are many things I admire about the United States and others I would like to change, but isn't that always true? A country, like a husband, is always open to improvement.

They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought them only ruin and abandonment.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.