Quotes About Evolution

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

Indeed, from my earliest years the idea of transformation has been central to my life. Naturally so, I suppose, being the child of diplomats. I changed schools, languages, countries and continents a number of times during my childhood. At each change I had the opportunity to re-create myself, to present a new façade, to bury past errors and misrepresentations.

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Les vieux, des gens d'une autre époque mis dans le futur.

If I weren't in a constant state of metamorphosis, I'd have to battle the gloom that comes with endings because I refuse to wind down in some female fit of the vapors.

It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Pasaban los años,y la única persona que no cambiaba era la joven de su libro

Por qué, entre todos los animales, en el largo curso del mundo, solo los pechos de la hembra humana habían llegado a ser hermosos? ¿No era para la gloria de la raza humana que los pechos femeninos hubiesen adquirido semejante belleza?

Una vez que nos abrimos al cambio, la primera acción crea un apetito por más cambio.

The kriya yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve upward and downward, around the six spinal centres (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.

The process of giving is an essential aspect of reaching the advanced stages of kundalini unfoldment and continuing progress on the path of yoga. The more we are able to give, the more we are able to receive in terms of our own spiritual evolution.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Looking back now, I see that we made all the classic mistakes of a growing company.

The competition always stayed close on our heels, but we managed to keep innovating and improving our products.

While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.

Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts;... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

To look back at all past work induces nausea [...] It's like taking a tour of a cell in which you were once incarcerated.