Quotes About Change

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do.

In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right. We don't think that anymore.

Years into days. Days into hours. Hours into minutes. Minutes into moments. Moments into possibility.

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

No, he finally said. I don't think you're boring. I think there are times you don't allow yourself to be interesting...but clearly that can change.

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

New can be an emotion.

He wasn't always like this. Nobody is ever always like this.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

it's not his body that changes right away. it's something inside. he says he wants to be a little weaker. i don't understand. i say 'thinner?' and he says 'no, i want to be stronger in a different way.' not because of me, but for me.

I mean, being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them… but it can also mean you're trapped.