Quotes About Change

We walked single file around the lake, inhaling the unmistakable smell of life poised and ready - fish stirring under the ice, green bulbs awakening below the ground. Soon the water would be free, the leaves would unfold like handkerchiefs, the flowers swell with pollen, the butterflies return. The risks of spring were still trapped under the ice but one good thaw and they would be released.

it's good to know where you want to be, but sometimes you have to go in the opposite direction to get there.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

so you won't see anything spectacular for a while. There's mostly farmland

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know. Or maybe it was this way only in her family.

It is not a lonely feeling, but just as I am always sad to close the cover on a book, I feel I have finished with this part of my life and will have to begin a new book.

Our axles don't match but our wheels are turning.

When Evan Chance read the bucket list he'd penned when he was twelve years old, he caught a glimpse of the man he'd wanted to be when he grew up. Now, at nearly thirty-five, he knew he was not that man.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I was too afraid for too long. It made me think about things I never should have.

I think the fear gets into your blood. It makes your subatomic particles twist and distort. You change, chemically. The fear changes, too. It because not your helper, but your master. You are a slave to it.

It is time to turn on the moon. It is time to live by a different light.

Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.

Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

Moving on from something have nothing to do with the time that it takes but the progress that you have to make.

In the last episode of the Magnificent Steiner he probably turned back into a normal human being. -Wolfgang Grimmer

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.

The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.

The way we think about our past informs what we think is possible today.

The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times when things were much more violent... But we don't have to act that way now. We can think and imagine ourselves differently once we understand what we 've based our ideas on.

It was like being part of a wave of water," she says. "A wave of spray from the ocean feels powerful, but it is only there for a moment, the sun dries the puddles and the water is gone. Then you feel maybe it never happened. That is how it was with us. The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy the land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.