Quotes About Change

modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.

Be the difference in someone's life that you know you can make.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

that was New York for you, always changing. New groups of people came in on a daily basis. Some people liked it, some people continued to hate foreigners, even though they themselves had been the foreigners of a previous decade or century.

How are you feeling?" he asked her. "Fine," she said curtly. "No more sickness?" "No." "You can still barely tell," he murmured. "Except that your breasts are larger." Christa swung around. "You are outrageous!" she charged him. He grinned, boyish and very appealing at that moment in his trousers and nothing more.

The wars didn't begin and end - it seemed that the times of peace did.

In other centuries (and in other lands), melancholy and longing were considered a natural part of the human condition. Now they are a moral failing, a way of signaling to the world that you're a loser and a quitter. You have to change your attitude and play nicely with others, even if that means bullshitting your way through every interaction. Everyone wants to see you turn that frown upside down. Smiles, everyone, smiles! Like you mean it this time.

The past is reduced to a slide show. The future is a YouTube video that won't load.

But maybe it takes a slightly unhinged person to reverse our decades of mindless consumption. Who else would dare suggest, "The basic rule for papers: Discard everything"? (Are they not required to keep tax records in Japan?) Who else would name a section of her book "Photos: Cherish who you are now"? Imagine Southwest Airlines changing their slogan from "Wanna get away?" to "What are you running from?

You have to go from being a volcano that lies dormant for years and then explodes out of the blue, decimating several villages of innocent people, to becoming a volcano that lets off a slow, steady lava flow that's truly beautiful, yet predictable enough that people can come and marvel at its beauty without getting their faces singed off.

Sometimes you don't know you'll miss a place until you're gone.

At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening.

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

I'd like to tell you it gets easier, but it doesn't. It just gets different.

they were taken away before the gold of their innocence had been tarnished by the soil of the world.

Campfires and birthday candles don't burn forever.

Campaigning and governing are not the same at all. It's easy to say what's wrong with government; it's harder to fix it, and progress can be very slow.

It's as if we are all moving through this world on a big old ship, holding on to one another as we cruise up the generous river of life. The water that floats us is always new, yet it flows in the same direction, over the same old sand.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

A sky has to be lost for a sea to be truly found.

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

I think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It's the day of the accident, the midlife crisis, the breakdown, the meltdown, the walkout, the sellout, the giving up, giving away, or giving in. The day you stop drinking, or the day you start. The day you know things will never be the same again

If Billy is working to change his behavior but is still struggling and demonstrating some negative behavior, the ultimate outcome will be greatly determined by the way the teacher handles Billy.