Quotes About Change

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Choose to choose. One of the great traps of life is being stuck. Stuck in a job you don't like, a relationship that has run its course, your level of healthiness or wealth are all things that you can change if you invoke the right and privilege to choose to choose. Trapping yourself in your own thoughts is a formula for failure and an unhappy life.

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.

This concludes the story of my youth, Your Honor. I hope that you can see that I have been swayed since my birth by forces that are poorly countered with reason.

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

FIFTH GRADE WAS different. That was the year to get ready for middle school. Fifth grade meant passing classes. It meant no morning recess. It meant real letter grades on your report cards. But most of all, it meant Mrs. Granger.

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

Like the sunrise, some things just have to happen — and all you can really do is watch.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret