Quotes About Change

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Take from it what you most need and pass it on to someone else, for this is how stories — and selkie — move on; changing, unchanging, like the tides, taking with them what they can and scattering tales to the four winds, like seeds upon the ocean.

Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currant. They change the sky, not their souls, that run across the ocean.

La fortuna è come un pendolo che oscilla attraverso i secoli, portando l'inevitabile.

With a jolt of surprise, he realized he had not really wanted anything for twenty years.

Why do boys always run? And when did I stop running?

A intensidade do amor era a mesma; a diferença é que a chama perdera o tresloucado dos primeiros dias para constituir-se um simples feixe de raios, tranquilo e constante, como nos casamentos.

que, se a educação modifica a natureza, a natureza pode em suas exigências mais absolutas readquirir os seus direitos e manifestar a sua força.

She smiled to herself, knowing that personal plans were a fluid proposition when you were a cop

they move them from a crib to a bed. It just seems that a bed should

I'm not myself, she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish. He smiled. You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?