Quotes About Change

The ages of muscle and miracle — of fists and faith — are passing away.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it." – Sir Walter Scott

The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see.

It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.

doesn't limit itself to a place, but applies to the lives of its people as well. The present, after all, cannot exist without its past. The two are inextricably tied, a circle that must eventually find its point of completion. For my characters here, raised in a county of like and different, the ends of the circle are about to connect, the ensuing collision forever altering the journey

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

Someone once said every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

And what if this place I'm running to has become every bit as random and merciless as the city I just left? The place where I've spent the past twenty years of my life working toward something I truly thought I would eventually reach, only to realize I had been there all along. And never recognized it. Never valued it.

Even a caterpillar gets to turn into a butterfly. Am I ever gonna be pretty, Daddy?

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." ? Joseph Campbell

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

And then you find yourself living what you never imagined. ~ Author Unknown

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.

We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst

Helena (börjar gråta): Ser du, nu gråter jag. Det glada, fina livet är slut, det hemska, skitige livet kastar sig över oss. Så är det.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

experienced a sort of "change-of-mind-space," or sort of a "benevolent breath" — and knew that one day I would do something "big" in parapsychology.

the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more creditbility if they had their origins in the soul & spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. -Marc Chagall

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.