Quotes About Change

Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.

Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves.

I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.

Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between.

If spring betrays the summer, would autumn never arrive?

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.

Age swallows our childhood.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

My younger passions are still listening, as I age.

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.

There was a big wide world out there. We were just a small wildlife park in Australia. It was absurd to think the two of us could change the world. But our love seemed to make the impossible appear not only possible, but inevitable. I look back on the talk we had during the ride to the zoo from Cattle Creek as helping to create the basis of our marriage. No matter what problems came along, we were determined to stay together, because side by side we could face anything.

Steve's mother threw us an engagement party for Queensland friends and family, and I encountered a very common theme: "We never thought Steve would get married." Everyone said it--relatives, old friends, and schoolmates. I'd smile and nod, but my inner response was, Well, we've got that in common. And something else: Wait until I get home and tell everybody I am moving to Australia.

Visiting Australia again, I thought, might not be a bad idea. How could I have known then that my decision would result, only a short time later, in a chance meeting with the man who would change my life.

Home didn't mean Oregon to me anymore. It meant, simply, by Steve's side.

It felt as though I had died and was starting over with a new life. I mentally reviewed my years as a child growing up in Oregon, as an adult running my own business, then meeting Steve, becoming his wife and the mother of our children. Now, at age forty-two, I was starting again.

All the reading of weight-loss books and purchasing of fitness equipment won't change a thing until you first guard your words.

turn your complaints into praise and watch what God can do!

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

Change What You're Saying and You'll Change What You're Seeing

YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE WHERE YOU ARE UNTIL YOU SEE WHERE YOU'D RATHER BE! –