quotes about change and letting go

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado


I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. Sounds more like an opera house. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly


God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. ~Terri Guillemets


Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. ~Author Unknown


If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. ~Allen Nevins


A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown


Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784, translated


According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib


Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. ~Werner von Braun


Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. ~Agnes Sligh Turnbull


A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon


Horses lend us the wings we lack. ~Author Unknown


The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ~Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science, 1972


If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage


Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files


A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately


Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya


I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense


Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. ~Oscar Wilde