Quotes about transformation and change
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
The road goes ever on and on.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
In a nation that knows how to lead, how can there be no followers?
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.