Quotes About Change

I've shed my own skin and merged into the fog.

Time was the first thing I noticed about the United States.

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

But the truth is, most of the things that change the course of our lives happen in fleeting unguarded moments; grief buckling us at the knees; fear shattering through us like buckshot; love pulling us out on an unseen tide. And finding ourselves in the grip of these overpowering emotions, we then invent reasons based on the flimsy evidence we have accrued why they have happened, trying to make sense of the insensible with armloads of self-justification

what life had taught me is that where we come from is a point -- not the starting point, not the defining point -- just a point. It's where we are that really counts.

It was easy to leave Karoi. Karoi had always felt like a train station platform, a flat place from which we hoped to leave at any moment for somewhere more interesting and picturesque.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

But how do you police friends who do not want to be policed? Already, Jake could sense the dynamics changing among his high school friends. Last week, his classmates had partied out of control.

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

Don't let yourself do something simply because you've started on a path and feel that you should complete it. Life is too short for that.

It's better to make a change now than to keep living your mistake simply because you worked hard to get there.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

I have lost my friends, D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. I have nothing left but the bitterest of recollections... Two large tears rolled down his cheeks. You are young, Athos answered. Your bitter recollections have the time requisite to change into the happiest of memories.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.

You are young, replied Athos, and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man

When readers feel strongly, their hearts are open. Your stories can not only reach them for a moment, but they can change them forever.

The arc of moral change isn't complete when change itself arrives. An insight gained, an understanding reached, the end of inner conflict, or the arrival of inner peace are fine, but there is one more step: proof. When a person has changed, we can see it. A selfish person turns selfless. An inward person looks outward. For authors, it's a kind of giving back. When inner peace has arrived, it's time for a transformed character to put good into the world. The

Magick is the science and art of causing change (in consciousness) to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional Western science . . ." In this case "will" is understood not in terms of the individual's petty wants and desires, but rather as an intention that is in harmony with the fundamental essence of the individual's Higher Self, and also in full accord with natural or cosmic law.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.