Quotes About Change

Those who urge us to fight ageing are, in effect, inviting us to stop growing and developing

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

A hundred years for now? All new people.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life.

Change was Fate' the Romans said. well, Andreas loathed Fate, That Bitch.

Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window.

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle; the rest is subject to change without notice.

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn't come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.

We shall overcome, We shall overcome / We shall overcome some day.' I WONDER. I really WONDER.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

All life is variation upon certain themes

I broke with my religion in college.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Forsythia that I thought had been dozed into oblivion sprang up and misted the foundations with lemon icing I yearn for all winter.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Those who are reserved by nature, and who rarely make friends quickly, or lightly, have a natural reluctance to say good-by, if only because new relationships will not quickly, or lightly, replace the ones that are left behind.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

I know that I have died before—once in November.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.