Quotes About Change

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)

Mio papà mi diceva che quando ti innamori per la prima volta, la tua vita cambia per sempre, e per quanto tu ti sforzi di liberartene, quella sensazione non ti lascia più.

There was, after all, more to life than work, and I realized I no longer wanted to be the person I'd recently become. I wanted to embrace those things that were important to me and worry less about the things that were beyond my control.

Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

Life, it seemed was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could love parts of his life over again.

Instead, it had more to do with the sense that somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past

While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.

On the trees surrounding me, the leaves are just beginning their slow turn toward the colour of fire..

But I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today.

He remembered forming his own ideas about the world, and his years as a teacher only reinforced the idea that change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

and that scared her. Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could never let that happen.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people. Jeremy didn't believe in much until he met Lexi. Lexi taught him to have a little faith. the theme here shows how Jeremy grew as a character and starts to believe in love. in something he thought he would never experience again.

The candles burned lower, and they poured the last of the wine into their glasses, both aware that they were sitting across from a person who just might change the course of their lives forever if they weren't careful. pg. 175

no es necesario que nuestras opiniones, nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos (todo aquello que experimentamos) nos defina para siempre. Supongo

Los momentos clave, combinados con decisiones y acciones conscientes, y con una buena dosis de esperanza, pueden arrastrarte a un futuro que parece predestinado.

Life is full of second chances.

Until yesterday, had someone even suggested that she go out with a guy with his past, she would have laughed aloud or - more likely - been offended. She should have simply said good-bye after he'd walked her to her car last night. The very Idea of the two of them going out today was absurd, and yet. . . she had asked him , and she had trouble remembering exactly how that had happened or what she'd been thinking. And yet, Colin was. . . magnetic

Tuesday morning, and with all the new security, I had to leave

Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow!

Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.

É engraçado, mas já reparou que, quanto mais especiais são as coisas, menos atenção as pessoas parecem dedicar a elas? Parece que acham que nunca vão mudar.