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Quotes About Change

When you can't go back, you only have to worry about the best way of moving forward.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.
~ Unknown
every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied
~ Pearl Buck
Liberation is a constant struggle. And this is a new year.
~ Pearl Cleage
How many terrible moments for women begin with the words "so I opened the door"?
~ Pearl Cleage
What good is trying to reform if you have to spend the rest of your life paying for the stupid things you did when you still got high and didn't give a damn?
~ Pearl Cleage
Music is music, but in a revolution, land and resources are supposed to change hands.
~ Pearl Cleage
Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.
~ Pearl S. Buck
All that had been was now no more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The
~ Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops.
~ Pearl S. Buck
wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman
~ Pearl S. Buck
One faces the future with one's past
~ Pearl S. Buck
Nothing is destroyed, only changed.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Questo è il motivo per cui mi sono tagliata i capelli. Volevo venderli per comperarmi un libro. Allora avevo paura di dirtelo, ecco perché ti parlai di orecchini. Ma è un libro, che voglio.
~ Pearl S. Buck
There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.
~ Pearl S. Buck
At that hour of deep loathing she was healed of all her heat and youth, and she was young no more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The idea is that there are three opportunities to take measures to elicit or change the behavior as desired: by changing what comes before it (the external factors, or environment), by aiming directly at the behavior itself (through teaching), and by imposing consequences (incentives or penalties).
~ Unknown
Maybe it was just one of those days when you hear an old question a new way, that quite suddenly shifts your perspective.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men.
~ Peggy Orenstein