Quotes About Change

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.

People change when they get older. They get more . . . cautious. They've been hit harder and more often. It doesn't mean they're stupid or timid—Mom

Because change is difficult," Shiloh said. "As with letting go of anything, a memory, a relationship . . . even the bad seems better than the nothingness that might take its place. We know this.

At the moment, she felt like she couldn't possibly be surprised . . . and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble. As

If learning lessons from history is a mark of enlightenment, so is breaking free from it.

We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all

It wasn't taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change.

May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin? man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.?

Even God knew mortality and change when He became flesh in this fallen world, and we must remain supple before time's gales.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

I keep on making myself little goals, but every time I achieve one of them. I'm forced to face up to the fact that nothing has changed. The thing that is still wrong and always will be. But that's too difficult to face, so all I can do is to pick another goal and start again.

Is it true we'd rather be ruined than changed?

Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.

Festering with regret changes not one thing.

Dying never made a man better than he was when he was living.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

What you were is forever who you are.

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . . That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done .

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...

Make no mistake- you can change things. Question everything, take nothing for granted; argue with all received ideas, don't respect what does not deserve respect; speak your mind, don't censor yourself; use your imagination and express what it tells you to express. These are the weapons of the mind.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.