Quotes About Change

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.

There is nothing so heartening as a chance.

Cuando eres amiga de alguien desde hace tiempo, es fácil pensar que te pertenece, como si la versión de la persona de la que te hiciste amiga fuera la única real. Si de pequeña no le gustaban los guisantes, nunca le gustarán, y si de repente cambia de idea y le encantan, es que se está engañando, ocultando su odio por los guisantes, fingiendo ser alguien que no es.

Defunct, adj. You brought home a typewriter for me.

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways. I

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, its going to leave you

It is my father who looks diminished now. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

We all have days that alter the course of our lives. Not each and every day, maybe. But a lot of them. Most of them.

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be bettter in different ways.

I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. 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.

I'm always jealous of people who get to be new to New York because they get to be amazed by it... I worry that it's like living at a high elevation. I've gotten used to breathing here and every part of my body is tuned to living here.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

I've tried breaking things to feel better and found that it only feels better while things are breaking.

Cand prima dragoste se sfarseste, cei mai multi dintre oameni stiu ca vor veni si altele. N-au terminat cu iubirea. Iubirea nu a terminat cu ei. Nu va fi niciodata la fel ca prima, dar va fi mai buna in diferite feluri. Eu nu am o astfel de consolare. De asta ma agat din rasputeri. De asta e atat de greu.

she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next -A

Instead of racing away from that terrible event," Alfred continued, "I think maybe it's time to start running toward something.

So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their toes, sapping the foundations upon which they stood, a sensation both agreeably stilmulating and sightly unnerving

Pope John Paul I had died and been succeeded by John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope for four hundred and fifty years: a Pole, a poet, a philosopher, a linguist, an athlete, a man of destiny, dramatically chosen, instantly popular - but theologically conservative. A changing Church acclaims a Pope who evidently thinks that change has gone far enough. What will happen now? All bets are void, the future is uncertain, but it will be interesting to watch. Reader, farewell!

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

Inside, we are ageless...and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center.

In Lynch's realm, America is like a river that flows ever forward, carrying odds and ends from one decade into the next, where they intermingle and blur the dividing lines we've invented to mark time.

When I was young, I did a lot of things with pine. But then, I started falling in love with Douglas fir, vertical-grain Douglas fir.

molecular genetic studies show that there has been an acceleration of human adaptive evolution over the past 40,000 years, and especially during the past 10,000 years

Evolution refers to change over time in organic design. Characteristics, or "design features," that help an organism to survive and reproduce, relative to other organisms with different design features, get represented in future generations more than characteristics that are neutral or that impede survival and reproduction.