Quotes About Change

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

I would rather you burned this book than used the reading of it as an excuse to not make some fresh trouble today

As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

When there's a war, people get married.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself

different. Let's give up meat and dairy." "Except for bacon and yogurt.

That was the thing about hurricanes and tropical storms, they left town in the same fashion that a stubborn old dowager would leave a cotillion, slowly saying good-bye to her minions, returning for one last waltz, finally leaving for parts unknown, maybe to dissolve into nothingness or to simply find another party, gather steam, and raise a little more hell.

It's just that I can't figure out how to be in this world without him. I just can't be the same.

better than that. In the end desperate calls to God might not change the outcome, but they might change

Something in me had changed when Archie asked me if I wanted Sharon's cats. I thought then that if I didn't start saying what it was that I wanted, I shouldn't expect to get it. Archie got so off base about me because I let him be so off base about me. I was never clear.

Yeah, well my walking body abandoned me and flew south

Love. It mystically transcended death. It healed hearts. It changed thoughts. And when you met it head-on, it gave you courage in return.

Dorothea Benton Frank

Maybe as you aged, what you wanted from a relationship changed too.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

But I came across a sentence in the book I was reading, HUMAN PERSONALITY, by F. W. H. Myers, which was so illuminating that I put the book aside to consider all the ideas suggested in that one penetrating hypothesis. When I picked up the book again I was a different person.