Quotes About Change

The rule exists in story because it's a true thing about people. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

we were designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the thing we were meant to live through was designed to change us.

Albert Einstein said, "The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

that, you have to leave your comfort zone.

Drain the swamp

It's the outsiders who change the world.

anachronisms.

Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.

it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

Sometimes it's good to shake up the status quo. You just have to make sure that when you turn society on its ear, you don't end up on your coutoure-covered backside.--vivian

I mean, if having a family was ever going to be part of your life, the transition had to happen somewhere, and likely that meant somewhere on your many travels something would change the way you saw things. Unless you got sick of adventuring and decided to up and go home and cast your bait in the pond there." She snorted, wrinkled her nose. "Casting my bait? Ew." "Well, what do you expect from a cattle baron pirate?

I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories and make them happier.

O tempora, o mores

Things happened, he knew, because other things had happened.

time had been busy with the flesh around her eyes and under her chin.

I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.

Older people longed for the world not to change so there would be no cost to themselves.

Young people longed to change the world, regardless of the cost to themselves or others.

year advanced. But in these first weeks it fell only on the

with renewing his offer of

I remember that's the way he was before we came out here. But then it was as if we'd come to a magic country where people changed into the person you wanted them to be, and all of a sudden my father became quiet and patient and had time to read to me.

come face to face with this reminder of what we all know and feel uncomfortable knowing: that life plugs along, no matter what happens to any of us. It puts one foot in front of the other, whistling a tune that is dreary or merry by turn, but it always puts one foot in front of the other and moves on.

Nor has the extent of your prosperity produced any change in you, except that it has given you the power of doing good to the utmost of your wishes. And whilst all these circumstances increase the veneration which other persons feel for you, with respect to myself, they have made me so bold, as to wish to become more familiar.

what in God's name was the thrust of that vast expanse of displaced water doing to those stones and to the centuries-old binding that kept them in place? Suddenly the air was unbreathable as a capricious gust blew the ship's exhaust down on them for a few seconds.