Quotes About Change

How'd we let so much time go by... When we swore we wouldn't?

Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex.

10. Before he met Mrs. G,

Just for a brief moment she pictured leaving this place. Wondered how long they would be allowed to stay here and where she would go when this odd segment of her life was over. She had just left a life when she met Sarah and her grandmother—a life that was now completely in the past—and had not yet built a new one on her own. So the idea of returning to her own life felt nebulous at best, meaningless at worst. How could she go back to a life that did not yet exist

I'm trying to learn to be a nicer person.

We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.

Thought about how afraid everyone is of change, and how sure they feel that their adaptation to change cannot, will not, happen. Then something new comes along, and a couple of weeks later it feels as though life has been exactly that way since the beginning of recorded time.

How can it be good to know nothing?" "It's not. But if you know nothing, it's good to know that you know nothing." "Oh," Grace said. "Yeah, I guess." "Because as long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.

Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it. And how that seems to be the one thing that makes addicts use drugs, and pretty much ruins everybody's lives. This thing about refusing to just accept the way things are when you can't change them anyway.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do." "See?

You're trying to change things that're not within your control to change. And whenever you try to do something that's impossible to do, you're going to find yourself a little on the tired side. Make sense?

They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.

The most important thing I can add from my own observations is this: Knowing it started from unremarkable circumstances should be a comfort to us all. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingridients. You can start with the world you've got.

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

Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex." - Nathan

There's some things in this life you can change and some you can't. I'm sure August tells you the same thing. Here's what you do when the time comes to talk to your dad. Here's what I do. I say to my creator, 'I'm about to open my mouth here. And, historically, that's been a dicey thing, as we both know. So some help is in order. So let me know what you want me to say to this person in this situation. Say it through me.

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks? I could never figure that out.

Things change so fast. Life turns on a dime.

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

But if I were to simply remain within my comfort zone, clinging to the way I want to feel—unchallenged—my comfort zone would just keep getting smaller.

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks?

I look back because I felt at home with May and Everett, as much as I ever have anywhere. I don't want that time to be gone. But it is gone, and even if I had not left, still it would be gone. Only for the time I was meant to be there could I feel so at peace.

robe and opened the door.

Why not make it into something better?" "Because it's enough.