Quotes About Change

Ah, well. There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

The only thing certain in life is change.

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

After the way I left, I suddenly find myself wanting very much to go home. But . . . it won't be the same when I get back. Will it?" "It will be the same," Grimm said. "You're the one who has changed.

His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk.

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.

I snorted. "They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?" "Yeah." "You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind up like Miss Havisham," I said. "Watching life through a window and obsessed with how things might have been." "Dear God," she said. "You've just made Dickens relevant to my life." "Weird, right?" I asked her, nodding.

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.

What had changed things? What had made the difference? She had. All by herself.

He glowered at me. Then he said, "When the hell did you get deep?" "Through experience, wisdom I have earned," I said in Yoda's voice.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are," I said. "Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

It was always easier to demolish something than to create it.

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.

Stop learning, start dying

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't." She

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.

A lot can change in a year.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed.