Quotes About Change

Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit?

It's funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of it.

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 lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? p 418

That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.

He wished that he could keep getting up morning after morning, with the world remaining unchanged. That was the thing about feeling like life was good. Even when it was—especially when it was—you knew you had something to lose.

She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done away with. —RAY BRADBURY, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

if you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward.

I was starting to see that the past might color the future, but it didn't determine it. And if I could believe that, it was much easier to let go of what I'd done wrong.

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.

Uomini. Non si può vivere senza di loro... e non li si può abbattere legalmente... ... Ho buttato fuori di casa mio marito otto anni fa, e al suo posto ho comprato un lama. La decisione migliore che abbia mai preso.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. Ervin

Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

When the life left a person, it wasn't by degrees. It was instant, like someone pulling down a shade on a window. The

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

It struck Lacy that she didn't really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing.

And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide.

I do what I do best. I move in the opposite direction.

The worst thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task of starting over.

Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that we are never the people we think we are.