Quotes About Change

She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you.

Remember, you can't change what has happened to you in the past, but you can take steps to ensure a better tomorrow.

Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.

Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked, I said. We did it. Of course it worked, Tera said. Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.

I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts." "I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring." "I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty.

I shrugged and said sadly, 'What? Once we gave them the vote, it went totally out of control.' 'You're a pig, Harry,' Murphy growled. 'But a pig smart enough to bow to the inevitable.

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise. But that time was pretty much in the past.

When kind men grow angry, things are about to change.

Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.