Quotes About Change

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...

maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through...

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

Five minutes …five days …and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.

You have to move forward in life. You can't sit in the same place, unless you want to, that's a choice too. But you can't sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

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Most of us don't see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives," he said quietly. "We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising, don't you think?

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

There are no mysteries, only unanswered questions that have no answers, and the memory of people who enter and leave our lives, for a short or long time, and stay only as long as they are meant to. We cannot change the patterns of life, but only observe them, and bend to their will with grace.

The homeless need so many things from us. In addition to housing, medical care, mental health care, and job training, they need a strong hand to help them up. And aside from what we can do practically, we need to share our strength and give them hope: the hope that things can change, and the courage to hang on.

Life wasn't always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges.

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye.

I think that's how life works. Just when you think you have it all set up and perfectly arranged, someone sneezes, or God blows on it, and all the building blocks come tumbling down.

there are chapters in our lives," he said quietly. "We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising

when I'm sad over what I lost, I often find that things look better in the rearview mirror than they really were

It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here.

I kept telling myself it was just temporary, but one day temporary becomes your whole life. You wake up, and you're not twenty or twenty-seven anymore, you're thirty-eight and you've given up all your dreams. I don't want to do that again. That's why I came here. From now on, I want things to be different, and this was the first step. I want to make decisions, not just float along letting life happen to me. I want more than that.

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He seemed so far away and suddenly so independent. She couldn't believe the time had finally come for him to leave for college, and she still looked depressed the next day at work.