Quotes About Change

Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.

entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.

It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse

My always needn't be forever. I'm ready for the plunge, nervy as a cliff-diver. Though if down the line things go rotten we can both climb the cliffs again. Life is long.

then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don't think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So

to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...

Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking.

For the two of us, ours was just a version of life briefly perfected (though in a way that showed me something) and that ended.

Towns aren't even towns anymore," Vicki said, sensing my distraction with this sad evolution, and giving me a hug around my middle. "Dallas wasn't ever one, when you get right down to it. It's just a suburb looking for a place to light.

Sometimes we do not really become adults until after we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes

Though when I turn to regard life -- my own or others'-- I now never fail to be struck, amid the onslaught of all that's happened and still is happening, by how much that's gone from me. Absences seem to surround and intrude upon everything. Though in acknowledging this, I cannot let it be a loss or even be a fact I regret, since that is merely how life is--another enduring truth we must notice.

no matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you're willing to take credit for or draw your vital strength and pride from—anything at all can follow anything at all.

And one day you woke up and you found yourself in the very situation you said you would never ever be in, and you did not know what was most important to you anymore. (Sweethearts, 1986)

Best just to swallow back your tear, get accustomed to the minor sentimentals and shove off to whatever's next, not whatever was. Place means nothing.

We drove up onto the interstate and went toward Spokane, where I had lived once and Arlene had, too, though we didn't know each other then the old days, before marriage and children and divorce, before we met the lives we would eventually lead, and that we would be happy with or not.

Lástima que no estemos expuestos a más momentos inesperados.

Houses can have this almost authorial power over us, seeming to ruin or make perfect our lives just by persisting in one place longer than we can. (In either case it's a power worth defeating.)

Fragment 9: We have as One in us that which is living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old: because these having transformed are those, and those having transformed are these. The

It's why the Delta doesn't progress. It's not having anything, and not really wanting anything, because that would mean change. That would mean taking on more responsibility. Too many of our people are not interested in progress and change.

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.

you want to nudge people into socially desirable behavior, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are better than the social norm.

Assuming you rise to the top, please remember: what made you great may not be appropriate for the next generation.

When something is claimed to be new, do not be too hasty to think it is just the past slightly improved - it might be a great opportunity for you to do significant things. But again it may be nothing new.