Quotes About Change

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God. Grace changes everything!

If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.

Even a small group of people can change the galaxy.

Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.

Don't get too disturbed when people say you have grown wings. You must realise you actually need those wings to fly.

Nothing truly ends.It only pauses at some point,then continues in another dimension.

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance.

From day to day he slid out of one skin and pulled on another. No wonder it was hard to sort out who he was.

_You're not a thief. Not anymore._ If he said it often enough, it might stick.