Quotes About Change

This is a new day, a new life. You can't go around burdened by old mistakes forever.

patterns. This sense of hierarchy and conformity was particularly strong during the militarist period of the 1930s. However, after Japan lost the war in 1945, the country became

the need to make the "strange familiar," to make the "familiar strange," and listen to social silence.

We cried for what we'd lost: people and time, as well as for what we'd gained: knowledge and truth.

What do you call that moment when we let go of the conviction, albeit illusory, that life will only grow larger? That the horizon will always expand?

While many things have changed, some things haven't changed enough.

When you enter your next relationship, you become the person you split up with.

Time doesn't offer a refund.

Time doesn't offer a refund. We don't get to try on the future the way we try on a bathing suit and then decide we don't like it once we see what it looks like in natural light.

Every year has an expiration date, as does every lifetime. Even the finest wine can't age forever.

Just because you've become tired of emotion, or outgrown it, doesn't mean it'll be simple to free yourself from it. It must be dismantled, not ignored.

Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.

One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .

To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

There is never only one Truth. There is only one truth at a time.

The dirt is coming for us all as we free-fall. This much I know: that eventually, we all have to start screaming well before we hit the ground, so the women below us will understand when to scatter, when to take cover, when it is safe to come back outside and try again to change the world. So that future generations will know, from the echo of our voices, never to stop watching the sky.

My life has become a series of fast-moving parts, each hurtling forward while I race to catch up, forever on the verge of tripping.

We are always permeable, shifting. We are all only one strange leap away from becoming inconceivable to our former selves.

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.