Quotes About Change

The fact that Kate was based at Quantico somehow softened the blow of moving again.

They weren't giving up their life, and yet, none of them realized they'd already done just that.

Life was a strange mix of twists and turns, where incomprehensible loss often led to paths of unimaginable joy.

Butterfly Garden is especially important to me because it delves into sibling relationships and family hierarchy as children and as adults. It also deals with metamorphosis on various levels and an eventual letting go… of old beliefs, habits, rituals. Just as the butterfly sheds its cocoon to emerge in dazzling splendor, so too, if given proper nurturing and guidance, do we.

No matter what happened in the past, what you did or she didn't do, nothing can change that. All you got is now and you don't know for how long.

Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost right when viewed from a different angle.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

She had thought his eyes were cold before. Now they turned to chips of ice. At least the ghosts had gone, replaced by cold confidence. She knew going to war had cost her terribly. Was it possible not going to war could coat a man something?

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Breaking up. It happens kind of suddenly. One minute, you're holding hands walking down the street, and the next minute, you're lying on the floor crying and all the good CDs are missing.

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

New love is so beautiful, time just makes it ugly.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves...

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns.