Quotes About Change

lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.

You keep remember: all is change." "All what?" "All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet. Is like this for you and Poppy and everyone. The people who do not understand are change. The people who afraid are change. There is no before and no after because change is what is life. You live in change, in in between.

Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.

After that she'd have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop expertise in more than frostbite, and lost toes, and idiots frozen to their fishing poles. But Rue, followed by Ben, followed by Rigel and Orion, had put a stop to that plan too; children being the enemies of plans and anything new besides themselves.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.

That was how, whatever else they were, Claude and Poppy became Buddhists for life.

We don't need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don't get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant it seems, and analyze it endlessly. It's written off—we're written off—as silly, but it's the opposite. We understand instinctively that change is slow. If you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling but bad for decision making, and it is frightening to look back and realize, were it not for that moment, all of our lives would have been so different. maybe that's revisionist history. Maybe it's me making origin myths. But I can't shake the conviction that Jason's boyfriend's friend's ex-boyfriend's girlfriend changed the world.

solutions, can be very volatile.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.

God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it." – Sarah Mahoney

In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.

Believing is essential when changing any behavior

Heading into any one-year anniversary, our emotional climate shifts. We enter a new season of the heart.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life. Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

We need to unlearn the habits of impatience and take stock of those beliefs about life that no longer hold true.

Only a fool would wish to go back who he was.

Only a fool would wish to go back to who he was.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.