Quotes About Change

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

I'd have to change, make myself do things I didn't want to do. Like talk to humans like I was one of them. I'd have to leave the armor behind.

I'd just discarded Plan Actually Not All That Terrible and shifted to Plan Approaching Terrible.

The whole thing had seemed to start out well and then devolve into a disaster almost before he noticed. Not that that's unusual. But

So maybe the experience of loss not only helps clarify what is important to us, but also helps us know where we are and the direction in which we want to go. In

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.

Sometimes endings are just opportunities.

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them, if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something, as if they know precisely the moment when everything went wrong.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

Many of the trees and bushes put their finery away for the season and slept in their plain brown skins until the spring warmth would wake them again, and coax out their colors and cooling shade.

The sound of the in-crowd was no longer folk or jazz but the bouncing rhythms of rock and roll

Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

Meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

The biggest compendium is life; one day it's Cluedo the next Snakes and ladders

Victory in codependency/recovery thus sounds like this: 'As I changed, all hell broke loose in my marriage . . . My husband and I began to fight a lot. My changes threatened him. I kept getting better, but the healthier I got, the worse it got at home. . . . I consider filing for divorce a real triumph in my recovery.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.