Quotes About Change

The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

And I never did look back for better or worse. If funding for a project ran out or the area we studied was suddenly bought for development, I never returned. There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive. Certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside of you.

Interferivamo con tutto, non lasciavamo stare nulla [...]. Non potevamo accettare che ci fosse qualcosa di intatto. [...] Non li lasciavamo stare neanche dopo la morte.

What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing.

Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing--for the sake of other people.

What was a person but someone who turned monstrous, anyway?

The fall took forever. The fall took no time at all.

confess I went because I had hopes that there remained some spark of the man I'd once known. But I never really found it.

Although by then not much was disgusting because the word familiar had changed so much since I had woken.

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

The therapist's job is to do everything in her power not just to promote self-understanding but to encourage experimentation.

Change usually begins with someone feeling a level of desperation that leads him or her to take constructive risks and experiment with alternative ways of being that previously felt inaccessible.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Renaissance" is not a good historical term, since it implies death and rebirth and great cataclysmic changes. There are few abysses or chasms in history; there are merely times when cultural change takes place more quickly and vigorously than at others.

Patients must be willing to give up their maladaptive coping styles in order to change. For example, patients who continue surrendering to the schema—by remaining in destructive relationships or by not setting limits in their personal or work lives -perpetuate the schema and are not able to make significant progress in therapy.

Often there are sexual difficulties. In addition, as the years pass, you may grow and develop a stronger sense of identity. If you become more assertive and no longer willing to stay in a subjugated relationship, your relationship must either change to adapt to your greater maturity or it must end.