Quotes About Change

When something can't be fixed then the question is what can we build instead?

Rich is not writing about transcending this world... But about transforming it. Here, and now. And what hope do we have of changing the world if we can't change our sorry-ass selves? As wisdom tends to do, the poem reveals something very simple that's been here all along: We are not the center of everything. But we are a part of everything.

My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been.

Dicen que el dolor adopta muchas formas, incluyendo la ausencia del dolor.

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

All these differences between children and adults

Bal, she whispered, her forehead resting against his chest as the seconds counted away. The only power I'd wish for is the power to turn back time.

Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.

But it's always easier for those who go to new places than it is for those who are left behind

things had once stood between them. That had gone for ever, she knew, and in its place there was a terrible sense of loss that sometimes threatened to overwhelm

President Franklin Roosevelt] was a great tickler of sacred cows not bred on his own pastures.

Alistair Moffat

how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

Sheila realized that pressuring the hotel managers would probably not work, so she changed her ideas about the target: "We need to put the fight where it belongs." The team told the hotel managers that they "would go to the owners and make the case." This did the trick, and the managers promised to provide secondary support.

the only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you're always starting and then leaving

I would like you to pause for a moment, and to record your own feelings about smoking: what you think it does for you, why you smoke and why you want to

Being a smoker can never get better, only worse.

For example, those of you who think it is just a habit, ask yourselves why other habits, some of them enjoyable ones, are easy to break, yet a habit that tastes awful, costs us a fortune and kills us is so difficult to break.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

Try to perceive yourself as a nonsmoker sees you

D]iagnosis needed to rest in order to let research catch up. It made no sense to keep rearranging the furniture of descriptive psychiatry, creating new diagnoses or altering the thresholds of existing ones, based only on the whims of the experts who happened to be in the room. [...] Changes in diagnoses should be few and far between until we gained much deeper understanding of what causes the mental disorders and how best to define and treat them.