Quotes About Change

I always say I was one woman before his death and have been another ever since. The one before thought she could fix anything if she just worked hard enough. The woman after was forced to accept that sometimes life has plans for us and our loved ones that are far, far beyond our grasp.

no matter how huge the changes I'd been through, I was still the same person at thirty that I'd been at twenty-seven and fifteen and nine. And would be (I can now attest to the truth of this) at thirty-eight and forty-four and beyond.

love might be forever but life was not.

We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

It was an ugly flower, pink with yellow-tipped stamens sticking out of the center. It deserved to die. Zoe pulled the hammer back in a slow motion and snapped it forward. There was a delicious sound of cracking plaster as the flower dissolved into rubble. White dust rose all around here. "I hate that wallpaper," she said

when you step out of your box you gain a deeper understanding of yourself!

?i ciulinii nu erau decât vis È™i îndr?zneal?, invitaÈ›ie s? schimbi ceea ce ai cu ceea ce ai putea s? ai, fie chiar mai prost. Ori, nimic nu-i mai r?u decât s? putrezeÈ™ti locului atunci când iubeÈ™ti întreg p?mântul.

A sudden change in plans will lead to good fortune.

The world, whose nature is to become other, is committed to becoming, has exposed itself to becoming; it relishes only becoming, yet what it relishes brings fear, and what it fears is pain.10

History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.

I was to see Helen again, in another place and time. But now I was settling into my new self – the self that had travelled and imagined that it had learnt much. I didn't know then that I would use up many more such selves, that they would arise and disappear, making all experience hard to fix and difficult to learn from.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.

Passare dal norvegese al russo è cambiare mondo (...); trionfano le i, frequenti e variegate come le betulle.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

The first thing I did was dye my hair back to a Barbie platinum. (I'm a natural blonde, if you don't count hair color.)

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Different times need different types of leadership.