Quotes About Change

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

We'll cry, she said. An then we'll stop. Because it's only a house.

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?

I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. Keep marching, boys and girls. Keep marching.

So what happens when proovs get old? he asks, as if the subject is close to his heart. They age gracefully, Lanaya says with a smile. That's the best we can do.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the "Renaissance" it was long gone.

The only common feature of the three successful Reformations was their rejection of papal authority; otherwise they were quite at odds.

Humans will tend to adopt and retain those elements of culture that appear to produce "better" results, while those that appear to be less rewarding will tend to be discarded.

The reason so many innovations and inventions were abandoned or even outlawed in China had to do with Confucian opposition to change on grounds that the past was greatly superior.

Russia is a country with unpredictable past.

so that age and subsequent generation always go on destroying and spoiling what went before:

In our lives, we surf the wave of chance.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.

We have to say goodbye to everything eventually, and life is punctuated with a thousand goodbyes, some greater, some smaller, all along the way.

have also learned that a goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is instead of what it was or what we may have wanted it to be.

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger