Quotes About Change

And here we are, so different from who we were on September 10th. And also different from who we were on the 11th. And the 12th. And yesterday. Sometimes you see the before/after. And sometimes it's as soft as saying hello.

My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-- I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back.

Fuck, I loved her then. And 'then' is blurring into 'now'. I'm thinking 'why not?' I'm thinking 'we're still the same people.

We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

What's gone is gone.

Person after person after person... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live. As it is with accidents, so it is with love.

seriously, is this what the rest of my life is going to be? i don't think i signed up for this.

If I woke up in a different body every day--if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow--would you still love me?

I know everything is about to change, and I fear that one day I will long for this minute before anything is said, that I will want to travel back in time and undo what's coming next.

I realized that this was my life, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

I don't mean that God made this happen to teach us something. Or to teach me something. How monstrously selfish would that be? I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Elijah is overwhelmed by the sheer fact of all the people who have walked over this very spot. As he watches Nikes and loafers glide past, he tries to fathom the feet of centuries ago. A person could stay in this same place his whole life and meet millions of people from all over the world. But instead, everyone moves on, and meets no one.

But for today it is working in this awkward kind of working. And that is enough for a beginning.

Let's stay on this song, before it turns to something else, before it switches to a commercial. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I couldn't fight the tide, so I decided to float along.

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

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

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.

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

LYNDA (TO TINY): Look forward to the moment when it falls apart. Look forward to the moment when you must rearrange your heart. It might feel like the end of the world- but it's the beginning of your art.

When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.