Quotes About Change

All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy-and that is as well, for one could not bear it-whose grief is that the principals never met.

Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

But sometimes his face would change, as if sorrow touched his shoulder, saying, "Had you forgotten me?

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

I found myself liking her at once. She was as plain as an old shoe. Queer how one can hear of people for years, dislike them on principle, and then meet them and fall for them. I fell for Maud Wainwright that day with a crash—braid, bedroom slippers, and all.

Pat and I, of course, could barely grasp that the Diana who'd been Patrick's beloved nanny three short months ago was destined to be the next queen of England. What a leap! From the nursery to the palace. Positively daunting.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.

Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.

I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again.

when we hold positive thoughts, it changes our behavior. We are more open, tolerant, and creative, and as a result we smile more, give more information, and are more patient.

and feel good about it. "What can you say to your irregular

They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children.

WHILE EACH SPIRITED CHILD IS UNIQUE, most are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change. Many, but not all, possess four additional "bonus" characteristics: aspects of their personality that can make being their parent even more challenging.

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.