Quotes About Change

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell

The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways. (19)

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way—fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps. In the end it almost doesn't matter. They're just as gone.

The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways.

But would it be that easy? To adjust my lens a little? To stop wallowing in all this murky sorrow? To change my attitude, let the sunlight in, fix myself?

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps.

We were supposed to weather the storms together, but we couldn't…You're not who I thought you were.

I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.

It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom.

His father clasped his shoulders, holding him at arm's length, looking him up and down. "You've grown." "It's been eleven years," said Jack numbly. "Of course I've grown.

arrived. She settled herself on

I'll believe it when I see it, missy. Snakes don't change their scales, no matter how many times he"—Miss Gwen poked her sword parasol in the Gardener's general direction—"changes his name. What has it been? Four names so far? Five? It's getting hard to keep track. Make up your mind already.

Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

home, they knew the dreary routines life held in store for them, whereas at sea anything could happen;

My brother Toby , quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman . —Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.

Ä°nsan hayat? nedir ki! Bir taraftan bir tarafa - bir kederden ötekine geçmek deÄŸil mi? - bir derdin üstüne kilit vurup - bir baÅŸkas?n? açmak!

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example.

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

How difficult. A prince who behaves like a husband and a husband who's starting to behave like a prince.

Looking back don't interest me. Today's what matters. And tomorrow, if we're lucky.

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

How did I get like this?