Quotes About Change

All the best things in life start with a risk.

All of life is quilted from the scraps of what once was and is no more- the places we have been, the memories we have made, the people we have known, that which has been long loved but has grown threadbare over time and can be worn no longer. We keep only pieces. All colors, all shapes, all sizes. "All waiting to be stitched into the pattern only you can see.

Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.

The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart. ...Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Our stories are powerful. They teach, they speak, they inspire. They bring about change. But they are also fragile. Their threads are so easily broken by time, by lack of interest, by failure to understand the value that comes of knowing where we have been and who we have been. In this speed-of-light culture, our histories are fading more quickly than ever. Yet when we lose our stories, we lose ourselves. . . .

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

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,

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

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.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

you can't impact something you don't touch.

I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.

Is survival sometimes about death and rebirth? Egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly?

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh

How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over. There's no going back.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over.