Quotes About Change

Some things, like innocence, only go one way.

Changing one's whole modus operandi of communication wasn't as easy as just hearing a piece of advice and then starting over.

That's the thing about life, Elliot thought. Whatever just happened, good or bad, it always moves on.

It's always 'something is lost, but something else is gained.

Life just rolls on, adjusting to whatever was subtracted.

No, the really tough bit is when you find yourself dropped on the other side, and you have to find a way for your life to go forward from there.

I think people are slow to believe in any kind of change." "That's 'cause nobody ever changes," she said. "Do you really believe that? Not ever?" "Well. Hardly ever. I guess you could be the exception to the rule." She still sounded as though she planned to wait and see, but it was marvelous progress all the same. It made my whole day.

I could try." "For your own sake. Yeah." "It's just . . . I've been like this for so long." August pulled in a deep breath. Sighed it out again. "Yeah, I imagine you have. But I'd still appreciate it if you'd let go of the idea that you constantly need to impress me." "I'll try." But he didn't sound too sure about his chances of succeeding. "Toast?

We shouldn't have stayed so long." "Water under the bridge, Buddy Boy." Buddy wondered why his father would bring up anything as scary as the river flowing under the railroad bridge. Especially at a time like this.

Funny how you can take a thing like carpet for granted if you always had it and you figure you always will.

Sooner or later you have to recognize the old patterns. But even that wasn't enough, she now realized. It wasn't sufficient to simply watch them play out while thinking, Yes, indeed, that is my pattern, and then continue to do it that way all the same. No. Sooner or later you had to get up off your sorry butt and do a little better for yourself.

It's like life has given you this huge challenge to make sure that what was running in your family stops with you and doesn't go on any more than it has.

August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe.

Ruth said, "Ham told me once that the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

Life gives us nothing outright.

used to think everybody got over everything. We always say we never will. But then we do. Because, really, what choice do we have?

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

the problem with people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

As long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

All big changes are scary. And it's scary to think of being without money. It doesn't even have to be an ego thing, but it would be pretty human and normal if there was some of that mixed in. We need money to survive, and to solve basic problems. And, you know . . . they tend to come up. It's hard to be without it, especially if you're used to having plenty. Cut yourself a little slack.

Great tragedy brings great growth, Anton. It wakes us up. It makes us into someone a little different from who we were before.

The thing I'll always remember best about that time is not how quickly our family fell apart. The memorable bit was when I first looked back at how we'd convinced ourselves we'd ever been together in the first place.

Joseph Campbell that says something like "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There comes an age when you answer a call that has nothing to do with the family that raised you. You grow up over their heads, beyond their reach. They'll hate you for it, but this is the natural order of things.