Quotes About Change

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallenQuestion [1954], st. 1

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.

Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's just such a habit ...

Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Nikad ?ovjek ne smije misliti da je siguran, ni da je umrlo što je prošlo.

Ljudi su zla djeca. Zla po ?inu,djeca po pameti. I nikada ne?e biti druga?iji.

Oborio sam pogled. Nikad ?ovjek ne smije misliti da je siguran, ni da je umrlo što je prošlo. Ali zašto se budi kad mi je najmanje potrebno? Nije ona važna, ta daleka, sje?anje na nju zamjenjuje skrivenu misao da je sve moglo biti druk?ije, pa i ovo što me boli. Odlazi, sjenko, ništa nije moglo biti druk?ije, i našlo bi se nešto drugo da boli. Ne može biti druk?ije pa da bude bolje u ljudskom životu.

When I came back, they gave me blank looks. Some said, 'I don't think I've seen you for days.' Some not even that. And I'd been away for ten years!

noc donosi ono sto hoce, i covjek ne moze nista da izmjeni. Moze samo da se osveti, i to je ljudsko, ako moze. Nije uvijek pametno, nije nikad pametno, ali i to biva.

But there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. We are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. Then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations.