Quotes About Evolution

Getting married doesn't mean you're done – it just means you've advanced to graduate-level studies. That's because everytime you think you've mastered the material, he'll change a bit. And so will you. As two people grow and evolve, the real work of marriage is finding a way to relate to nurture each other in the process. (on 8 things no one tells you about marriage)

Change is an entangled part of being.

Every one of us is a story in progress.

Resistance to Change comes from your Ego.

Let the past serve the present, let foreign things serve China," said that famous servant of the people Mao Zedong.

Today tinkering is the order of the day as Chinese leaders "cross the river by feeling the stones.

Senior leaders used to rule, but now they merely react.

Consider these words from Lech Wa??sa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a spade and tell him to dig a hole two hundred meters long. But you can't put a man behind someone working creatively, behind a computer, and tell him, "Please devise something original." There is no way to do it

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Now when I say let go, I do not mean reject. Because when you let go of something, it will still be there for you when you need it. But because you have stopped clinging you will have freed yourself up to tap into other possibilities - possibilities that can help you deal with this world of accelerating change.

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

We're painted savages, nothing more, in spite of what we like to think of as some thousands of years of civilization. Only our present paint's called clothing and our caves called buildings

A recipe is a guideline. Adding, subtracting, evolving it - that is part of the pleasure.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

Middle age is when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places.

With each passing year, the body turns more prison than shelter.

I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.

Autumn is Spring turned antique.

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

If we gaze at the clouds, then close our eyes for a few minutes, then re-open them and the clouds are different, we don't freak out about it. So, why do we worry when things shift and change in our lives? New day, new sky, every moment too.

We may as well make friends with Change — the instant the Moon is full it's already starting to wane