Quotes About Change

iría viendo cómo se iba haciendo chiquita la ciudad de méxico y adiós ángel de la independencia y adiós caballito y adiós monumento a la revolución ¿verdad?

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

Auch Freundschaften mündeten in den Fluss der Zeit und verschwanden darin. Und im Rückblick erwiesen sie sich als Rinnsale und nicht als anschwellende Bäche, wie man gerne geglaubt hätte.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.

But we can find it again, that golden age, because history is cyclic. All that is needed is a few good people. Men and women with the vision to see that the old must be destroyed to make way for the new, and the courage to do it.

Paintings are like children. It's nice to have them around the house, but not necessarily forever.

I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant present.

Anyone can be anyone

From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

You're all murdering life...You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are...where you are.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

A relationship can really change from a push down the stairs.

There is a point at which fear must face the God you know. At this point, you decide whether you wish to continue repeating this false narrative in your head and remain stagnant or move head and actually live your life

This is life, a pattern of renewal, growth, and change. None of us are really ever the same over the course of a lifetime. The tragedy is not learning the lessons within the experiences we have.

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Have you ever noticed that people sometimes quit a job soon after returning from a vacation? We all have a higher tolerance for frustrating or unhealthy situations in our lives when they are constant, but when we get a little time away and then come back, that taste of freedom changes our perspective. What had been a dull ache turns into a sharp pain and becomes unbearable.

For decades, many therapists have been attempting to help abusive men change by guiding them in identifying and expressing feelings. Alas, this well-meaning but misguided approach actually feeds the abuser's selfish focus on himself, which is an important force driving his abusiveness.

Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.

I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.

you cannot make things better by changing your own behavior or by attempting to manage your partner better. Abuse is a problem that lies entirely within the abuser.

Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.