Quotes About Change

The greatest power within a person is the ability to choose change. This requires self-examination, this requires determination, this requires judging what needs to be changed, this requires moving from shame into guilt, and this requires repentance. There is a reason we struggle and react the way we do, but there is no excuse.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Change is hard. That's why propelling away from discomfort is easier than moving toward a fantasy goal.

Leading up to (divorce), the parties have to ry on different ways of being in the world. This means being single, sexually active, emotionally vulnerable with another human being.

People who filed for divorce have reached a point in their lives where they are no longer able to honor the commitment they made in their wedding vows.

Regardless of where you stood on Trump, his victory disrupted the status quo, brought anger out of the shadows and barbed human relations.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.

The key of liberation is to acknowledge that your unhealthy response to other peoples' behavior is a habit – and most importantly – that it's a habit you can break.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

The past doesn't change, does it?" "It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

When confronted with their fruitless ways, binge writers often proffer a self-defeating dispositional attribution: "I'm just not the kind of person who's good at making a schedule and sticking to it." This is nonsense, of course. People like dispositional explanations when they don't want to change [...]

se había transformado en algo que era más, y a la vez, menos que humano

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

It must be terrible to be old, when you love someone who died young. They never change in your mind, and every day you see yourself grow away from that person you were when you loved and knew them. Until you are more of a shadow than they are, and the girl you were is altogether gone, more dead even than that young man on the battlefield.

The time is coming to an end when you can wander the roads of the world as free and easy as you like, and meet a stranger across firelight. They will fence in the world entire ere they are done, the clever men of this earth, and there will be no space left on it for vagabonds, and dreamers... and little lost girls running from their fate.

It must be terrible to be old, when you love someone who died young. They never change in your mind, and every day you see yourself grow away from that person you were when you loved and knew them. Until

I am almost dizzied by a sudden knowledge, as cold as snow down my spine; that I, too, will grow up one day like everyone else, and look back and miss the years gone by, and the things I could have done, should have done. And growing up is suddenly not something to be impatient for, not all jam and buns and doing as one pleases. It is precisely the opposite.

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.