Quotes About Evolution

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her - and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.

There is nothing hot that will not get cold.

Avlija živi sama, za sebe, sa stotinu promena i uvek ista.

Na?ini in oblike pripovedovanja se spreminjajo s ?asom in razmerami, potreba po pripovedi in pripovedovanju pa ostaja, pripoved te?e naprej in pripovedovanju ni konca. Tako je v?asih videti, kakor da ?loveštvo od prvega pobliska zavesti skozi stoletja pripoveduje samo sebi v milijon variantah vzporedno z dihanjem svojih plju? in z ritmom svojega utripa ves ?as isto pripoved.

Strah mijenja oblik i briga ime.

A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.

The heart and the spirit also shed. They shed the emotions and experiences that we no longer need. They shed the things that stunt our growth. This, too, is an invisible process. Yet because of the energy involved, the emotional energy, we often feel the emotional and spiritual shedding. It feels as if we are dying. We are. Just like the flowers and the trees, we are dying to an old identity. This shedding, or death, is not the end of us. It is the beginning.

Before you can live a part of you has to die.

The story was no longer important to tell.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

They say that you can never go home again. You look for everything to be the same and when you find that things have changed, you are left reeling, crestfallen and dazed.

But the shelf life of that status quo was expiring fast.

For a brief moment, he remembered when he had been the most cool-headed in the Brotherhood, the icy intellectual, the laser-sighted truth layer. Lately, the stressors had been coming on him so hard and fast. He had turned into a flaming hot Cheetos!

For four fifths of our history our planet was populated by pond scum.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

Eve-In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process? Roarke-Amen