Quotes About Change

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If there was one central lesson of her life, it was this: people leave. Parents. Lovers. Friends.

How can I start at the beginning, when all I can think about is the end?

New words for an old, never realized hope.

The only real answer lay in the courage to see a thing clearly and try to do better. Be better.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

she'd sometimes wondered what good all those sorries were if nothing ever changed

The Age of Innocence.

So they would try again in a new place, hoping geography would be the answer.

Maybe that was how it would be

Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was

The world could tumble, change radically in two days, with just one less person living in it

D'un tratto capì che una donna poteva cambiare tutta la propria vita e sradicare la propria esistenza con una sola scelta".

Well, sir. I reckon you leave when you just can't stand your life where it is.

Cuando este la besó, algo se abrió en el interior dolorido y vacío del corazón de Isabelle, se desplegó. Por primera vez entendió las novelas románticas; se dio cuenta de que el paisaje del alma de una mujer podía cambiar con la misma velocidad que un mundo en guerra.

Sometimes you had to go backward in order to go forward. This truth they knew, even as young as they were. But there was another truth, one they shied away from, one they tried to protect each other from. Sometimes it was painful to go back.

The dark edges fell back again, receded until there was only here, only now. A sunlit day, a celebration, a family. Life was like that, full of quicksilver changes. Joy appeared as unexpectedly as sunlight.

The world can be changed by a handful of courageous people. Today we fight on behalf of those who are afraid.

Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately

I am thinking of how it will feel when he leaves, and I am sure the same thought occupies his mind. With a sigh, he reaches into his briefcase and pulls out a stack of envelopes. The sigh is in place of words, a breath of transition. In it, I hear that moment where I go from one life to another. In this new, pared-down version of my life, I am to be cared for by my son instead of vice versa.

When she was little, Elizabeth had often cried when her mama's favorite flowers wilted and died. Now, though, as a woman full grown, she understood the importance of rest. It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible.

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Fear changed everyone and everything, and yet, as always, life went on. Hour by hour, day by day, while politicians and military personnel were looking for bombs and terrorists, and while the Justice Department was tearing down Enron's papery walls, families went on with their ordinary lives.