Quotes About Change

Life's a trip and then you fall.

And how odd a thing change was. She hadn't even recognized the shift within herself until it was already done. She hadn't felt it when she'd begun to value her own thoughts. She hadn't even believed it when she'd begun to feel wild and reckless. She'd only let it happen and never attached a word to it. Love. She'd fallen in love. Not only with Peter, but with herself too. With the wayward woman she could be. In a gown with lace and embroidery, in a tavern maid's bartered dress, and in his arms.

fond of offending his superiors and is fond of making revolutions has never been known.

Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself – losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force that's around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life won't sprout.

Unless you begin to see the hollowness of where you are right now, you will not begin to seek something else strongly.

A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process, nothing is fixed.

Esto es como el circo Romano, como la inauguración del Anfiteatro Flavio por el emperador Tito. Mas de dos mil años de diferencia y nada ha cambiado.

Pues eso no se sabe nunca –dijo el genio Vargas Llosa–. La amistad, como todo, es tan relativa, ¿no?

Acaso es triste el irse... pero sin el irse no hay volver

Yo me voy a otra parte. Y me llevo mi mano, que tanto escribe y habla.

If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Although we usually don't notice them until long after they have passed, there are moments in life when everything hangs in the balance. There are moments when we really can change the future. When those moments come, either you lift your arms and fly, or you don't. There's nothing in between.

She was never your's, it was just your turn.

There is a time for everything

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn't live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.

I identified with the yearnings of this man; I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.

if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances; I couldn't bring myself to ask her to examine Lewis's daily conversations with his stockbroker, to see if they bore any relation to the things she saw passing away forever before her eyes.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.