Quotes About Evolution

history takes a long time to happen.

I'm learning there's never a way home, only a way forward,' said Rain.

You might forget an event but you can never go back to living as you did before it's influence was applied upon you

By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.

He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.

Every day you die a little and get a new chance to find out how next to live.

But what is character? How solid? We cut our hair, we shave our beards, we lose a limb. We remain ourselves. In dreams, however, we swap identities licentiously. We sabotage the structures of our character without a thought. None

And yet what now is hidden in shadows below may become more welcome to you in the long run.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: I can't make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change.

We are happy when we are growing.

I don't want to reject my life. I want to change my life without changing my life.

William Butler Yeats. "Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, "This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one." Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

We assimilate a little this way, and a little that way. Life is only mutation.

In his journal, Emerson wrote: "Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis….We dive & reappear in new places.

His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all the more. Vivacious, effusive, and very loving in the early days, over the years she had, like a stale wine that turns to vinegar, grown ill-humoured, waspish, and nervy.

Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She

Les dieux n'étant plus et le Christ n'étant pas encore, il y a eu, de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle, un moment unique où l'homme seul a été.

Eh bien, tout doucement, un jour chassant l'autre, un printemps sur un hiver et un automne par-dessus un été, ça a coulé brin à brin, miette à miette ; ça s'en est allé, c'est parti, c'est descendu, je veux dire, car il vous reste toujours quelque chose au fond, comme qui dirait… un poids, là, sur la poitrine !

ART – Leads to the poorhouse. What's the use of it, since we're replacing it with machines that do better and work faster?

Darwin. Celui qui dit que nous descendons du singe.

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.

History has always existed, but not always in a historical form.

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.