Major Shift Quotes

A mighty influence is abroad, surging and heaving the world.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

I see things completely differently now.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Find it quite impossible to get excited about the atomic bomb as such, can’t see that it really alters anything.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Some dramatic event often crystallizes popular attention, and the world turns on a dime.

This is a turning point in human history.