Quotes About Change

How had he suffered the old arrangement for that long? Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

The way he saw it, living taught you that you didn't have to live the way you've been taught to live. You came from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

C'è chi pensa che l'amore sia la fine della strada, e che se si è abbastanza fortunati da trovarlo ci si ferma lì. Altri dicono che è come un burrone nel quale si precipita. Ma chiunque abbia vissuto almeno un po' sa che muta con il passare dei giorni, e secondo l'energia che gli si dedica, lo si conserva o ci si aggrappa, oppure lo si perde, ma a volte capita che non sia nemmeno mai stato lì, sin dall'inizio.( Questo bacio vada al mondo intero)

most people who've been around awhile know [love's] just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lost it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.

Sometimes you've got to go up to a very high floor to see what the past has done to the present.

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

Wenn wir gehen, nehmen wir unsere Heimat mit.

He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

People can look different from hour to hour depending on the angle of daylight.

The only true way to expand your world is to inhabit an otherness beyond ourselves. There is one simple word for this: empathy. Don't let them fool you. Empathy is violent. Empathy is tough. Empathy can rip you open. Once you go there, you can be changed. Get ready: they will label you sentimental. But the truth is that the cynics are the sentimental ones.

The men all seemed to want mulligans with their lives.