Quotes About Change

You came during an early snowstorm

Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?

Things happen, Jacob," I heard Sarah say. "The rope broke. I could have died." "Don't, Sarah," said Papa. "You could have lost me, Jacob," said Sarah. "And that's the way life is. Something happens . . . one little moment in time. If you're lucky, you have a chance to make things better. You have that chance here. Don't let it pass.

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

I nod yes-no-yes-no and run back to Ama, afraid to tell her about this new auntie who smells of amber and jasmine and possibility.

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place

What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

I'd go to school and walk up to people. "A new leaf," I said.

I'd like to get rid of all of them. Filthy hovels, filthy people. I would tear down the houses and let sheep roam among the rocks.

Someone telling you that you've done something racist can be an act of respect and kindness. In a culture as racist as ours, and given the long history of racism, it's impossible not to say or do something racist from time to time. Someone pointing out our racism gives us a chance to do something useful about that culture and history.

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes," said Marcel Proust.

rocky terrain is unavoidable and may even be the path to something wonderful. "We can count on chaos,

By stabilizing things you defeat the point of the exercise. Stay with the uncertainty, please. Really, it's all about the struggle.

I cannot do All the good That the world Needs But the world Needs all the good That I can do. —JANA STANFIELD, "All the Good," Let the Change Begin

employ a pregnant

these past few years. They had filled her

He is love, and when love comes in, hatred and selfishness and unkindness will give way to it, just as the darkness gives way when you let in the sunshine. But try to chase it alone would be trying to chase the shadows out of a dark room. It would be a waste of time.

Well, Lord, I changed my mind. Fuck that nigga. Take away my love for that lying piece of shit. Don't change him. Please, God, change my heart.

For the fighter pilots of the First World War, buttocks had been an important sensory tool. Pilots felt they lost something when, in 1927, parachutes, which they were obliged to sit on, became standard equipment. By

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

Un simple clic; no hace falta nada más para cambiar una vida. A veces para mejor. A veces para mucho peor. Pero nunca lo pensamos. Hacemos clic y ya está.