Quotes About Change

Poetry is history to be protected, lessons to be learned, a path to change our society or prevent its demise.

I couldn't know that we'd meet and the world would spin beneath my feet, and somehow ignite a million shades of beauty in my life. I couldn't know that I'd change how you saw, well, everything.

One reckless note can change everything.

minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save us. But some are darker, dangerous. If we allow them to, they control us. Seduce us. Quite possibly even destroy us. The moment I stepped into the mansion that is the centerpiece of the Reid Winter Vineyards and Winery wasn't one of those moments. Nor were any of the moments I spent weaving through

It means, "the melody changes, but the song remains the same," but directly translated it's: "the players change, but the music is always the same.

We would like to gently expand the technique of intuition because it admits change that remains sincere to experience without depending on the past. Intuition reveals the negative space of habit, carving an urgent threshold from the commonplace.

Can we awake from the century already 'or only cast over it 'propositions about the political 'as if to rescue ourselves?

I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction" - Valentine

Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.

Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?

I was touched by the millennial madness.

And then we were gone, cascading back to the future.

In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.

No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment.

How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway? Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

Life is a process of storms and rebuilding, of fires and regrowth, of loss and gain.

You know how it is. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage. One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones....

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I