From Haruki Murakami: “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Tag Archives: change
Quote of the day 08/20/25
From Henri Bergson: “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/22/25
From Kamo Chomei: “The moving water flows ceaselessly, yet the water is never the same.”
Quote of the day 03/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zeno of Eleanor showed that things cannot move, a moving arrow is an illusion, Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. But here again life solves the problem by living. We come into existence and go out of it, things move, things overtake other things.”
Quote of the day 03/06/25
From The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: “Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi.” “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
Quote of the day 02/16/25
From Rumi: “Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.”
Quote of the day 02/12/25
From Rumi: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Quote of the day 11/08/24
From Heraclitus: “The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
Quote of the day 11/07/24
From Heraclitus: “The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”