Quotes About Change

Every woman has a record of her body—a closet full of jeans and bras of various sizes, albums full of photographs revealing periods of weight gain and loss.

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

A name is a marker of identity but there are markers we cannot change, like the color of our bodies.

The master replied: Tsogyal, the empty essence of your awareness is not created by anyone. Without causes and conditions, it is originally present. Don't try to change or alter awareness. Let it remain exactly as it is! Thus you will be free from straying and awaken within the state of primordial purity.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

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3. We stalk negativity. What do we study? Disease, problems, disasters of the past. What do we prepare for? Emergencies. We love to sink our teeth into problems and ask, "What's wrong?" It's an old-school model that sorely needs transformation. Once we begin to look for what's right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.

if climate change is our bubonic plague, that makes us the fleas and rats.

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

I'm just saying, I guess, there's another version, after this version, to look forward to. Because of wisdom or hormones or just enough years going by. If you live long enough you quit chasing the things that hurt you; you eventually learn to hear the sound of your own voice.

as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story.

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think

There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.

You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something,