Quotes About Change

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

Divorce casts so many shadows.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.

If you stick that anger behind you, one day you're going to turn around and find it's gone.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite... Soon, maybe.

Each time she told me, 'Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. You need constants in your life.' She had a different hair color each time she said it.

Empty moving boxes piled in a heap—the cardboard symbols of starting over

Lo que pase depende exclusivamente de ti. Eres tú quien tiene la capacidad de decidir qué quieres cambiar de tu vida

When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.

You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing minds at home, in the streets, and at the workplace - not just in legislatures and in the courts. Each and every one of us has and important role to play in completing that task.

Sonia Sotomayor] maintained tight bonds with her Hispanic community. On the May 25, 2009, evening that President Obama had called to offer her the nomination, he had asked her to promise him two things: 'The first,' she recalled, 'was to remain the person I was and the second was to stay connected to my community. I said to him that those were two easy promises to make, because those two things I could not change.

No matter what the outer appearance of things may be, let me think of the "bookmark prayer" of Saint Teresa of Avila: Let nothing upset you, Let nothing afright you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all her needs.

A strong intention is the single most important requirement to bring about growth and change, because intention provides the energy that motivates our continuing efforts.

Today is a cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The sun is becoming an ever greater presence; the days are growing longer.

Today the cosmic wheel turns and opens fully to the West. The hours of light and dark are exactly equal on this first day of fall.

The serenity prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr is a classic. Say it with all your heart and let its wisdom penetrate your mind: God give me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference.

Peace be with you. The darkest day of the year has dawned, and the Great Medicine Wheel has shifted from the West to the North.

Fear gives way to courage. We are asked to fast from the ego's fearful thinking and fill ourselves instead with faith. The Muslims mark this change with Ramadan, the Jews with Purim, the Catholics with Lent.

March is a month of coming and going, the changing of the guard.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

You have to live with a painting as you do with a lover. It's that personal. You might want to change lovers. You might want to rearrange your paintings. That's the way it should be.

Life is not about age, about the length of years we manage to eke out of it. It is about aging, about living into the values offered in every stage of life. As E. M. Forster wrote, "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.