Quotes About Change

It is so strange that you can end up having such polite, awkward conversations with somebody with whom you once shared such intimate moments.

She quite liked this aspect of her personality: the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.

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Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you

Fuck it, maybe she'd even get her hair cut.

Nothing is forever except change.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

Former greats didn't necessarily make great coaches.

It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

you have children you think your life has changed forever, and it's true, to an extent, but it's nothing compared to how your life changes after you lose a child.

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I don't want any more children," said Carmel. "I just want to go back in time to when everything was beginning. Pregnancies are the ultimate beginnings.

for the most part she'd always felt satisfied or at least accepting of the universe in which she found herself … except for right now, because right now it felt like there had been some sort of cataclysmic quantum-physics administrative error. She'd slipped universes.

There was some sort of malfunction going on with how fast the earth was spinning. Decades went by as quick as years once did.

I want to emphasize that at issue here is not just co-optation or privatization but a change in the discourse that incorporates the punitive with the therapeutic, with vast implications for the embeddedness of criminalization with pathologization.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.