Quotes About Change

No end, his words promised her. Life did not end. After thought, she found she shared his conviction. No final blackness to fear, no sudden stopping of being. Changes and mutations, yes, but those things went on with every breath. Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.

You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.

We all get used to things we once swore we could never live with

I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

Truly, the girl had grown up. Althea recalled ashamedly that she had once felt that some hardship would improve Malta. Undoubtedly she had been improved, but the cost had been high.

It was as it had to be. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

For years, as your health has waned, I have served you. Were I disloyal, I would have proved it years ago. Loyalty, however, is hard to prove." "Because loyalty can change, it must be proven every day.

I'm too old to do this sort of thing anymore. No. You only wish you were.

The sad thing about boredom is that one learns to value it only when it is exploded by a disaster, or the threat of one.

As we shouldered our packs and set off, I reflected bitterly that I had walked away from people I had known and cared about to avoid the very situation I was now in with comparative strangers. I wondered if there was any way to live amongst people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations

She could change. She wasn't chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn't merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn't too late.

I copied her silence. After a long time she observed, "Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind, and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be. Do you understand that?

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

Do not you sense it? A crossroads, a vertex, a vortex. All paths change from here.

Few things appeal so much to the heart of a man as a fresh start.

Fool," I began. "Yes. I am that," he said, and left.

no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

The past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Acaso reunir el coraje que se requiere para buscar un camino diferente equivalga a tener el valor para arriesgarse a cometer nuevos errores.

I had Hap still, I reminded myself, but on the heels of that thought I knew I did not. Hap was a young man striking out on his own. For me to cling to him now and make him the focus of my life would have been the act of a leech. So who was I, when I stood alone, stripped of all others? It was a difficult question. p. 449

You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of.

Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

The price was my healthy young body, so long taken for granted.

There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial meetings may be until years pass.