Quotes About Change

Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…

As the soil was renewed, so one's feelings seemed to change, uniting in some inexplicable way with a distant age when the eyes and ears of men were more alert to sights, sounds, and fine distinctions.

Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget.

It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.

And here, like everything else, life changed from a whole number into a fraction with a numerator and a denominator, and it became difficult to figure out what was above the line and what was below it

There must be a reason for my being here...eh? All right, I'm going to die pretty soon, and others will come. And everything will be done differently around here. But all the same, I've carried on the things that meant a lot to my father. And he added (these words are clearly engraved in my memory), "If you want to know, I never harmed my own land.

There was truth in the saying: the one you marry is the one you become.

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

And if you don't like it here, you can go somewhere else, where it's better, no road is closed to you.

The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't belong here or there. Lord have mercy!

May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself anymore. Everyone's rushing headlong. They're out of breath, stumbling on every step, but they keep on running...No time to look back, there's no time to look underfoot...as though someone's chasing them.

The more I got to know you, the more I began to see that something was missing. Something I had convinced myself that I didn't need.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.

History will catch up with us. It isn't dead more than we are. It lives in and upon us, parasitically, like the bacteria in our intestines without which we would die. If you want to see the future, keep looking steadily behind you, because the future, no matter how we may pretend we don't know it, is history.

So happy ending all round, more or less. I know you're relieved. But much as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we are sitting down to the feast.

Applying effort is more than just reading a book on recovery; it is about bringing some of the tools that have been suggested into action.

Once I got over the belief that I didn't have a right to explore my life when there were many other people in the world experiencing greater suffering than I could imagine, I stepped onto the path that would truly allow me to change.

We need to name the issue. What are the practical steps? Many steps have much in common. •Be clearly aware of the specific. •Remember to breathe mindfully through the desire and explore alternatives to the desire. •Remain one-pointed to overcome the issue. •Be willing to keep working with the issue on a daily basis. •Use our imagination to generate change. •Seek the kind support of others in the process.

I remember once asking my therapist why it is always me who has to do the changing. She replied, "If you're happy with the situation, don't do anything; if you're not, you'll have to do something about it.

The tiny bud the parents nurtured does not seem to have bloomed into the magnificent flower they expected. Parents feel as if they have been cheated or robbed; their family seems irretrievably lost to them.

Radical acceptance requires being open to fully experiencing your own life, as it is, without wishing it were not so and without pretending it is different. Acceptance is entering into the reality of this moment, without judgment. Radical acceptance is the fulcrum that balances validation and change.

Erkekleri bertaraf edin, kad?nlar ÅŸekle girecektir. Kad?nlar düzeltilebilir; erkeklerse düzeltilemez, ancak davran??lar? düzeltilebilir. SCUM k?çlar?ndan dürtünce hale yola girerler.

It might not appear in the newspaper, it might not change anything or anyone else, but writing it would change the way she felt.