Quotes About Change

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

God, life changes faster than you think.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

I'm as strong as I'll ever be without change of interests and surroundings.

Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers.

I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.

Parenting is constant readjustment.

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better" (Rhodes).

My pop didn't go to war, but he's been disappearing just the same.

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.

It's not an unkind thing to make a new home. And it will be one where all whom you love are welcomed.

When some people come across a new idea that challenges their worldview they retreat into a tight, rigid scepticism.

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

You remind me of everything that followed.

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she'd worn, the insecurity she'd felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.