Quotes About Change

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

The Anglo-Irish occupied a strange position in 1920s Ireland, the time in which the book is set. A breed apart, poverty-stricken yet proud, they were struggling to keep their niche in a changing country.

Those wide shoulders and swinging hips were once parts of a winged quality she had –

You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?" "I want to be with you." The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath. The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.

You changed me, baby," I told her, stroking her cheek. "I barely recognize who I was before you came into my life. And I don't…I don't want to go back to being that way.

Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

Change is a choice. It's long and it's slow.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." – Oscar Wilde

Where we grew up, we didn't learn how to live. We learned how to bury the land, seal life off. There was an unacknowledged backdrop to being a kid on land that was fast turning into strip malls, when you loved trees and a silent corporate presence kept showing up to knock the trees down. It was the helpless sense that everything you ever loved could be destroyed, without debate.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

Losses may make us feel as if time had stopped. Families may close down, attempting to control those aspects of their world over which they still have some power, since in the one area that really matters --- human relationships --- they have lost a sense of control.

Most people avoid confronting family issues because they can't see a way to change the relationships they find so frustrating. The frustration leads them, as it did Queen Victoria, to seek new relationships in which they attempt to make up for whatever has gone wrong earlier. And if these new relationships don't bring fulfillment, the general bitterness and pain will most likely increase.

Rosie stood up. 'Is everything all right? Is Amy —' 'She's fine, Rosie.' They had long been on first-name terms. 'But there's been a change in today's schedule. Can you come and see the consultant now?

The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it seemed reborn. It represented cosmic continuity within natural change—spiritual continuity within the changes of material life.

The shape of our family has been upended and rearranged, its roof flattened, its gateposts ripped from the earth by God's own brutal hand, and only the animals know enough to make a run for it.