HOW CHANGE COMES ABOUT 

Quote for Today  - December  16, 2010

"We do not succeed in changing things

according to our desire,

but gradually our desire changes.

The situation that we hoped to change

because it was intolerable

becomes unimportant.

We have not managed to surmount the obstacle,

as we were absolutely determined to do,

but life has taken us round it,
led us past it,

and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past,

we can barely catch sight of it,

so imperceptible has it become."

Marcel Proust [1871-1922], Rembrance of Things Past [1913-1926], The Sweet Cheat Gone