Quotes About Change

Like children, we have dreamt, that what gratifies our desires, or contributes to our convenience to-day, will prove equally useful and satisfactory to-morrow, without reflecting on the growth of the body, the change of humours, the new objects, and the new situations, which every succeeding hour brings in its train.

The past has its own plans. And more often than not, the past finds a way into the here and now.

you can't keep eating pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar on them for the rest of your life. Thirty years from now, you'll understand why your mom's eating fish, and I'm pretending to enjoy this turkey bacon that tastes like paper.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

There's always an open door. Forget the past and walk through.

My life is a book, a new chapter - a new day

Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't.

Midnight has passed, so it is now officially tomorrow

If only I could start again, I would do everything differently. I would try to win your love through kindness rather than compel it by force, and if I failed, I would accept your will and wish you joy on your own path.

As the next car in the line pulled up, he sent a last yearning glance after Kate, wanting to imprint that laughing image on his mind forever. Girls like her were not for guys like him, who parked cars and worked construction to earn college money. His imagination hadn't been good enough to guess the way the night would end. But that was then, and this

Mary Jo Putney

Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

Well, perhaps he's not my best friend, but I don't think he hates me anymore.

I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel … disconnected

I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.