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Quotes About Change

our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle. Why do I do the very thing that will guarantee my own unhappiness over and over again?
~ Lori Gottlieb
The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to
~ Lori Gottlieb
Maybe because from the creative point of view there is nothing so dangerous as security.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
~ Unknown
Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.
~ Unknown
Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzes them into staying lost in the area that's just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it's less scary than seeing something different than what's presently in front of them.
~ Unknown
Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it..
~ Unknown
Our losses become the road maps for our future.
~ Unknown
There are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.
~ Unknown
How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.
~ Unknown
must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
God is working on two fronts all the time. As He works to transform society, He works to transform the transformers!
~ Jill Briscoe
Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't wanna hurt His feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.
~ Jill Conner Browne
Now she knew, and she couldn't un-know. Life would never be the same again.
~ Jill Mansell
Ah, the old don't-need-a-man thing. I love that line. I mean it sounds great, and girls love to say that stuff because it makes them sound all strong and independent. But it's not actually true, is it? Deep down they're panicking, getting more and more desperate, and the next thing you know, they're hurling themselves into a new relationship.
~ Jill Mansell
Every day we do things that are capable of changing everything, and that's what makes life exciting.
~ Jill Mansell
Just because it's normal doesn't make it any easier.
~ Jill Mansell
Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them.
~ Jill Mansell
But this was just making her feel claustrophobic. They couldn't carry on like this; she was going to have to do something about it.
~ Jill Mansell
She was determined to make amends. Her old life was behind her and the new one had begun.
~ Jill Mansell
Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself.
~ Jill Mansell
Everyone makes mistakes. But you stopped and did something about it. Most people don't bother.
~ Jill Mansell
But that was then. This was now. She was a different person these days.
~ Jill Mansell
I am homesick and I am timesick . . . I miss all that no longer is, Lil says.
~ Jill McCorkle