All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to read more

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

We must become the change we want to see.

We must become the change we want to see.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found read more

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength read more

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present read more

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.