Quotes About Change

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

You're just not always in a place for as long as you thought you'd be.

Fatal is fatal, but it doesn't have to be all downhill.

you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

It was only out on the cold street...that Riley began to feel the full loss of his father. Poppa, he thought, Oh Poppa. He'd grieved him since Christmas when he first took ill...but it was here now, an empty place where once had been Poppa. A quietness to replace Poppa's good voice. A gust of wind that said he was there, not on earth, but in the air. Riley knew he would not be the same man again, for Riley had been Poppa's son and was now only his survivor.

I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Though I would never have believed it as a teenager, you do move past things, outgrow the person you were. Sometimes, just by staying alive, you find you have become someone who can live in the world after all.

That both Riley and Warren are attracted to independent young women is an interesting contradiction that serves to valorize the agency of the "girls" and to underline the static macho masculinity of those guys- they cannot or will not change, therefore they cannot keep the girl.

the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.

You must think I'm some kind of nut, but it's just . . . I don't know, it's just that I can't take what's happening in the world. I can't take all these people getting shot. I can't take this war. I just thought we were supposed to be better than that. I really did believe we were on the dawn of a new age.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

I am] A fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is—energy and energy can move things...

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

Life was a strange circle. She tried not to decipher it, but rather to accept it as it came.

What had seemed so simple then seemed so complicated now. Doors had closed and opportunities had opened. She felt lost, at a crossroads, not knowing which path to take.