“Our land is like a poem, in a patchwork landscape of other poems, written by hundreds of people, both those here now and the many hundreds that came before us, with each generation adding new layers of meaning and experience. And the poem, if you can read it, tells a complex truth. It has moments of great beauty and of heartbreak. It tells of human triumph and failings, of what is good in people and what is flawed; and what we need, and how in our greed we can destroy precious things. It tells f what stays the same, and what changes; and of honest hard-working folk, clinging on over countless generations, to avoid being swept away by the giant waves of a storm as the world changes. It is also the story of those who lost their grip and were swept away from the land, but who still care, and are now trying to find their way home.”
Source: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
“I dwell too much. I hold on to things I shouldn't, to people I shouldn't. If you don't change, change will find you in its most unruly form. It will press down on your vulnerabilities until they squish out the edges. Life needs volunteers or else it will start calling on people at random.”
Source: Grief Is for People
“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“You don't always recognize a new beginning while it's happening.
You just feel something shift and suddenly, the life you tolerated no longer fits.
Annam M. Gordon”
Source: The Hidden WEIGHT of Ordinary DAYS: You’ll Find Strength Where You Were Shattered
“No podés tener el control sobre todas las cosas, no ahora que estás enfrentándote por primera vez a la realidad. Nada es del todo seguro. La vida debe vivirse desafiando constantemente lo desconocido,
porque la vida, Princesa Odái, no es estática: cambia todo el tiempo.”
Source: Y colorín colorado, este cuento aún no se ha acabado
“The world has already changed--yanked right out of the hands of anybody trying to go backward--be backward. It changed. Period and forever. What you're scared of is the burden of changing yourself along with it.”
Source: Sky Full of Elephants
“Incumbents benefit more from the status quo than changes to the system.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Look I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that's in here but we all know there's a problem. If we can't be honest about that, how is anything ever going to change?”
Source: The Book Club for Troublesome Women
“My role-and that is too emphatic a word-is to show people that they arc much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people-that's the role of an intellectual.”
Source: Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
“I would never again be the Ariadne who had not been to Opera, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left Earth, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left her parents' home, who had never bled, who had yet to learn to walk. A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox – the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.”
Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate