Quotes About Change

That's what therapy is for," Luc said. "No one's life is perfect. At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for who you are and what you want.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

A confrontation with divinity, your own higher intelligence, is going to change you, and some people don't want change. They should be warned that if you come into this temple, you're going to face blazing activation of your brain. You're never going to be the same.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Grow within the flow.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

These are the seasons of emotion, and like the winds, they rise and fall.

As it was, then again it will be; though the course may change sometimes, rivers always lead to the sea.

Then as it was, then again it will be. Though the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Been to yesterdays, lived through todays. Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays. The whys of life change, and so do ways, new scenery is built, to fill an empty stage.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That's the end. That's when the coffin is closed.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.