Quotes About Change

Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish.

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.

For so many years I had used my connections to get special treatment. I expected people to overlook my tendency to bend the rules or cut corners or even kite checks. Standing in the hallway, temporarily banished from my prison room for illicit possession of office supplies, I felt good about telling the truth. It was a small thing. Nothing at risk but a few sheets of carbon paper. But it felt important.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

Out of the blue and into the black

I don't drink anymore myself, I'm moving on. And that's not to say I won't drink again. I'm not making any promises, but I don't think I was a great drinker. Some folks are great drinkers; they drink and tell jokes and laugh their asses off, and they are funny as hell. We buried one of those last week. Life is just a big test, and if you try hard, you fail. If you don't try too hard and fail a little but have a good time, maybe that is success.

experience was not yet my friend

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

Up in the rainbow teepee sky, nonone's looking down on you and i. That's just a mirror in your eye ... If i believe in something, i have to believe in myself ... The world is full of changes; sometimes those changes make me sad ... I think I'll hit the peace trail ...

The past is always judged by the present.

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.