Quotes About Change

We cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new kind of thinking.

What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

It's the cycle of life," I say, remembering Starlily's words. "Things need to move forward, not backward.

I didn't think I would end up here." "Me neither.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.

The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is,

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it's smash the patriarchy.

So," I said climbing to my feet and changing the subject ASAP, "I had a dream last night someone tried to burn me alive, and I'm not entirely sure it was a dream." Devon stiffened. Chase's pupils pulsed. Subject successfully changed. "Now who's ready to eat?

I am an expert at not wanting to want things." I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he'd lowered his. "But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore.

Sometimes, I felt like if I could just fold up into a small enough ball, my body would collapse on itself like a star, and I could supernova myself into a new existence.

Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.

I'd spent my whole human life not making waves, hiding what I was, trying not to be noticed. Until now.

you have to see the world to change it.

Mr. Hawthorne signed a document reaffirming his will yearly," Alisa told me. "He never changed it, until you." Until me. My entire body tingled, just thinking about it. "How long ago was that?" I asked. "Last year." What could have happened to make Tobias Hawthorne decide that instead of leaving his entire fortune to charity, he was going to leave it to me? Maybe he knew my mother. Maybe he knew she died. Maybe he was sorry.

I stood there, staring at Ivy, a hundred thousand thoughts and memories and moments rushing through my head. And then I got on the plane. And then I shattered.

She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn't change anything.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

had spent a lifetime treating me like an afterthought, if that. I hadn't seen him in more than a year. But now that I'd inherited billions? There he was.

They were a broken, twisted mess before you got here, and they will be a broken, twisted mess once you're gone

Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.